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In despair, she slashes her wrists and ends up in a hospital, where she attempts to explain her bond with the killer to a psychiatrist (Stephen Rea, with an incongruous New York accent).
Situated in the Posada de la Victoria, a charming early 17th-century historic inn that is incongruous with its surroundings, the museum offers a fascinating glimpse of how life was lived in Málaga in generations past.
Atop the whole site is the incongruous Ágios Geórgios, a pretty whitewashed 14th-century church.
Humor is defined in the OED as that quality of action, speech, or writing which excites amusement and in MWIII as that expression of ideas in a happening, an action, a situation, or an expression of ideas which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous.
Directly across from the Kumari Bahal stands the incongruous white Grecian facade of a palace wing that was built in 1908 by Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere, a Rana responsible for the Singha Durbar and many of the city’s neoclassical edifices.