The writer needs to be the smartest one on the room, for the writer holds the room in his head, and there is not space for any within to be any smarter.
Madness string 2558
Our caselaw recognizes two different interpretive tools concerning absurdity. The first, the absurd consequences canon, merely resolves an ambiguity by choosing the reading that avoids absurd results. The second, the absurdity doctrine, reforms unambiguous statutory language where the language would lead to an absurd result.