and the browncoat laughed and told the tsarevich that if this were so the tsarevich must have an hugely well-developed sense of the absurd , and the tsarevich told the browncoat that when he was a boy he would think than when characters died on stage their actors also died in real life , they just had to otherwise it wouldnt make any sense for him , otherwise it would all have been a lie and lies he hated more than anything else .