Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...final choice falls. Her loneliness grows as she considers the prospect of living out Berenger's deranged dream of resistance. Looking out in all directions at the sea of rhinoceroses, she says sadly, "Those, those are people. They look happy. They feel good in their skin. They don't seem crazy. They're very natural. They had reasons to change." When Berenger's hysteria has moved him to hit her, with the rhinoceroses singing to her through the windows, she quietly walks out into the sea of green backs and horns...
Most of us, I suspect, would disagree with the latter half of Unger's proposition. It seems a bit extreme to assert that we are morally obligated to help remote, starving children. Few of us do (at least not by mailing in $1 to UNICEF), and even fewer of us feel bad about not doing so. Why? Because, intuitively, it just doesn't seem wrong to switch the channel when something like that comes on the screen...
Indeed, the idea of human suffering and the theory of a benevolent deity seem wholly incompatible. If a higher power exists, and He is "good" and "omnipotent," then how can He possibly allow His creations to suffer pain? Why do we have even the capability to suffer...
This is funny enough but gets tired easily. Celebrity by itself teeters so often into self-parody that it seems too easy to bash it. Fortunately, Ellis does more than that, injecting Glamorama with a sharper plot than those of earlier novels, a plot which kicks in about a quarter of the way into the novel. Victor, for a $300,000 fee, is sent by the mysterious F. Fred Palakon (whose name echoes G. Gordon Liddy's neatly enough to hint at the web of deceit to follow) to London to look for a former Camden College friend, Jamie Fields...
...other science fiction TV programs and movies. Like the TV series, this movie is also full of nineteenth and twentieth century references: when Data malfunctions, Captain Picard calls him back to reality by singing Gilbert and Sullivan. In the twenty-fourth century universe of Star Trek, such references might seem anachronistic, but they allow the audience to connect with the story, despite its distant-future setting...