Word: antiworld
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of ghostly images superimposed in layers to infinity, wrapped in infinitesimal films." Each time a photograph was made, he believed, another thin layer of the subject's being would be stripped off to become not life as before but a membrane of memory in a sort of translucent antiworld...
...Without Sirhan, would there have been no Nixon, no Watergate, and possibly therefore no Jimmy Carter, and possibly therefore no Ronald Reagan? The long historical tumble of the past 20 years may have begun in that hotel serving pantry. Of course, that sort of hypothesis is merely a fantastic antiworld. Such speculations are idle and infinite...
...naming a woman Vice President this year revolve around the vice presidency itself, and the qualifications one should expect a candidate to bring to it. The office is almost metaphysically bizarre. In some thin, Zen way, it is the most interesting office in American public life, a political antiworld: it is a condition of utter impotence that is a heartbeat away from the greatest power in the world. It is a form of political cryonics. The Vice President is, so to speak, flash-frozen and then, should the need arise, thawed out later. There is no such thing...
...conjectural game tangles the mind in difficulties antiworld speculations on the classics that an infinite number of monkeys might have composed on an infinite number of type writers. J.D. Salinger years ago enforced Connolly's game upon himself, vanishing into a weird silence that for those who love his work has always felt like a small, sharp loss. Thomas Pynchon dwells somewhere in an aloof privacy in deep cover making metaphysical devices in his basement, like a terrorist who has gone into the fireworks business...