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His lyrics are absurdist — “When the ting went quack-quack-quack/You man were ducking” — but his pose is quasi-serious.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2018

Often in quasi-serious fantastic tales, in mostly serious pamphlets of prophecy, he has tried to describe what particularly tantalizes him: the Future's shape.

From Time Magazine Archive

I confess that my own enjoyment of Richter, which has nevertheless been considerable, has always been lessened by the presence in him, to a still greater degree, of this same habit of quasi-serious divagation.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George