Word: surrealness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From this surreal material, delivered in prose reminiscent of the best of Clarence Major's fiction, Cliff confronts the Americanization of not only the Caribbean but the world, finding poetry in every image and line. "A salesman is free, he tells himself...People look forward to his arrival, and not just for the goods he carries. He is part troubadour...
They are photo negatives in a surreal, M.C. Escher kind of way. Harvard is 8-1, boasting a stellar 6-0 Ivy mark. Lowly Yale is 1-8, languishing in the Ivy cellar with an 0-6 league record...
They are photo negatives in a surreal, M.C. Escher kind of way. Harvard is 8-1, boasting a stellar 6-0 Ivy mark. Lowly Yale is 1-8, languishing in the Ivy cellar with an 0-6 league record...
With the grape situation thus veering toward the surreal, and as the debate is stained by allegations of deceit, you may be tempted to give in to a craving for the juicy, sweet, smooth-skinned fruit we know and love and end our involvement in the boycott here and now. But at least take a close look at the facts before casting your vote...
Murakami moves effortlessly between surreal comedy and tragedy. In one of his most striking and sparsely rendered passages, aging veteran Tokutaro Mamiya comes to visits Okada and describes in graphic detail how he watched a friend get skinned alive by a Mongolian soldier. This encounter is followed by one of the funniest episodes of the book, in which Okada and his Lolita-esque neighbor travel to Tokyo to take inventory of its bald inhabitants...