Word: actualizations
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...arguing that Harry Potter is actual poetry. But it does have that transporting quality, and not just because it’s a page-turner. J.K. Rowling has given our world the gift of another world, a completely fantastic place with enough parallels to our world that it makes us think. Many contemporary books are intensely personal, intensely subjective and intensely cynical—not the kind of books one can read on a smelly bus ride home from Yale. But Harry Potter hit the spot; it was absorbing, satisfying and wholly escapist. And the mobs outside stores that June...
...ITMFG tiddle cup is brimful of incidental pleasures and outrages. In Wilson Yip?s ?Bio Zombie,? which shambles through an hour of slacker slapstick set in a Hong Kong mall (it could be called ?Chungking Excess?) before it gets to providing actual entertainment value with a half-hour of vampire carnage, the two boho heroes, Jordan Chan and Sam Lee, spend half their time in the toilet. Chan: ?What are you doing here?? Lee: ?I am stooling...
...CESK? announces these rules, as if every educated person knows them: ?When two opponents have the same strength, the one with the taller altar will win,? and ?He who wears a red petticoat will be possessed by the god of war.? ?Devil Fetus? mixes ghost lanterns and paper money (actual paraphernalia of grieving) with a levitating mom, a bleeding mirrors and a flying carpet that?s less magic than black magic. To make a ?love hex? operable, in ?Eternal Evil,? a man needs his sister?s sweat; and Julie Lee tells the hero, ?You are enchanted. Inside the placenta...
Unfortunately, there is no actual kiddie pool in Kiddie Pool. Margo says he was unable to find one. Instead, one character draws the pool on stage with chalk. Pool, the grown man in the imaginary kiddie pool, is then propositioned by Couch...
...much of his persona as “tortured genius” comes across in your work? How did you separate or move away from media construction of the Unabomber versus actual psychological exploration...