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...great supernatural ladder of being and was guided by one part fate and one part justice. However, our world is not that world. Instead we live in the 21st century proper—a world where the pawns are now also the chess masters and a gaze at the stars is no longer a study of philosophical perfection but rather a view of our cosmic loneliness. Perhaps, we are still in a morality play, but if so, it’s unlike any we’ve ever played before. Technology has allowed us to harness natural forces to create...
...Foote still remembers what it felt like to gaze over Baghdad from the window of his ninth-floor room. Coming back from each long day of work, he would find the panorama of the city stretched before him. Staring at it, he said, he would try to imagine what the workers on the ground were thinking, what the shopkeepers were worried about that...
...emerging from the wilderness not as a barbarous or murderous villain but as a simple representation of the primitivist and paternalistic fantasy Europeans held about North America, a fantasy which envisaged the new continent as the seat of an uncorrupted paradise. His arrow pointed down in peace, his gaze forward, the hero of the seal takes on more of a proud association with the elements of native culture rather than an assertion of its inferiority...
...work. When Tila looks pensively into the camera toward the end of the video, is she criticizing the worth of this stripper utopia? Is she reflecting upon the hollowness of her exhibitionist lifestyle? Has she adopted a devil-may-care attitude with regard to the burlesque dance? Her penetrating gaze forces us to confront the stripper that we all repress inside. Overall, the video’s artistic choices serve it well. They provide a steady, relaxing stream of undulating eye candy to watch as you reflect upon whether the Lilliputian Ms. Tequila picked the guy or the girl...
...with his loving stepfather and mute sister. Baxter’s characters are obliquely formed through third-party description, and their identities are further confused by paranoid and erratic actions that the reader can’t understand. In “The Soul Thief,” the gaze of others constitutes one’s self-conception. The narration and structure reflect the confused identities of each character. From the opening paragraph there is an uneasy tension between third-person and first-person narration. At times we are looking at the world through Nathanial’s eyes...