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...concern of the Chinese is not a figment of anyone's imagination. It was just in March, in fact, that Premier Wen himself prodded Washington for reassurance. At the annual meeting of China's National People's Congress in Beijing, Wen said, "We have lent a massive amount of capital to the United States, and of course we are concerned about the security of our assets. To speak truthfully, I do indeed have some worries. So I call on the United States to maintain its creditworthiness, abide by its commitments and ensure the security of China's assets." (Read...
...strangest twist in the story may be yet to come. Grann doesn't find Fawcett, but he does meet an American archaeologist who lives, Kurtz-like, with a tribe of Indians deep in the jungle. His work suggests that Z may actually have been more than a figment, and that once upon a time the counterfeit paradise was a real one. Fawcett may have been right after all. But he was too late for that...
...it’s all thanks to my best dragon friend. Or, it’s all just a figment of my imagination...
Georgie Fruit is a middle-aged, sexually ambiguous, black, ex-con, former funk band front man—and a figment of the imagination of 34-year-old married father Kevin Barnes. Now, 11 years into the recording career of second-era Elephant 6 group Of Montreal, Barnes is still trying to find the right way to get out whatever the fuck is inside his head. But for anyone who’s been following the Kevin Barnes genre-bending, gender-bending bender, “Skeletal Lamping” will feel just about right, if a little bit disappointing...
McCracken is a novelist (The Giant's House), and Figment is the story of her pregnancy, her grieving and finally the birth of her second child, a baby boy, a year later. It is, as McCracken writes, "a story so grim and lessonless it's better not to think about at all." But reading it is a mysteriously enlarging experience. It could pair neatly with Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking: it's hard to imagine two more rigorous, unsentimental guides to enduring the very bottom of the scale of human emotion...