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Giving meaning to not seeking it may be, beyond all the amazing visuals and striking non sequiturs in his work, Wilson’s ultimate message.

It was not only a non sequitur — where the money comes from is not the measure of whether rich people controlling government constitutes oligarchy — but it is also a flat-out lie.

From Salon

Here as Alyssa, she pulls off abrupt pivots, exiting one scene with the non sequitur “Is that a pigeon?”

"The problem is, if you do state funding, then you’re tied to it," she explained, not even bothering to come up with a more plausible-sounding non sequitur.

From Salon

A waiter sitting down at a table and saying out of nowhere, “I literally have COVID” — that’s my kind of non sequitur.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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