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Me, all alone, at the end of the world
A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, \"Professional Visionary,\" builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have \"Fun Without End!\"
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Erasures
“When history proves useless and consensus chimerical,” Donald Revell has written, “the poet’s necessity is invention, and this does a lot to explain our century’s preference for revision over mimesis.” For Revell, The disruptions of this century have destroyed old illusions of historical continuity: “The consolations of history are furtive,/ then fugitive, then forgotten.” Invoking such contemporary events as the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War, he seeks to integrate the political with the personal in a search for new paradigms of value and honor.
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Oliver
Oliver is different. He enjoys his solitude. He likes playing with his friends, who are puppets, stuffed animals, and other toys. With his rich imagination, Oliver's day is never dull. But maybe toys don't always give a boy everything he needs. Maybe he needs another kind of companion. Will Oliver discover a way to be, well, different? When his tennis ball rolls across the lawn into the yard of the girl next door, he just might be surprised.
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Pyramiden
Harald lives alone in a lost world. There's nothing left to hunt, and his food supplies are starting to rot. He must leave his cabin to search for the remains of a vanished humanity. He then discovers a strange ghost town, settles in it, and decides to revive it. But strange phenomena will disrupt this new life.
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Beyond Science Fiction: Magical Realism as an Approach to Literature in International Relations
The importance of works of science fiction to scholars of International Relations has already been established by discussions pertaining to its pedagogical value, its value as a study object and even its value as a constitutive aspect of world politics. In this article, we argue that it is equally important to give attention to works of magical realism in IR, especially because magical realism blurs the boundaries between literary and genre fiction, posing a constructive challenge to the different ways literature is either considered art or mere entertainment. By relaying the deep connection between magical realism and its birthplace, Latin America, we use One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and The House of Spirits, by Isabel Allende, to illustrate how magical realist pieces can serve as reflections of Latin American sensibilities and therefore provide relevant insights for the scholar of IR.
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Gus explores his world
When solitary gosling Gus has his adventures lead him to a nest, he finds three small eggs that could possibly hold his perfect companions inside.
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Work it out wombats!. Episode 8, Me time
Work It Out Wombats! follows a playful trio of marsupial siblings -- Malik, Zadie, and Zeke -- who live with their grandmother (named Super!) in a fantastical treehouse apartment complex. The Treeborhood is home to a diverse and quirky community of neighbors who just happen to be wombats, snakes, moose, kangaroos, iguanas, fish, tarsiers, and eagles! Each day drops a new challenge into the Wombats' laps, requiring them to find, debug, fix, order (then re-order) -- and create, test, and re-create when things don't go according to plan. But thanks to their creativity and collaborative spirit, their sense of family, and the role they play within the larger Treeborhood community -- as problem-solvers, friends, and neighbors -- the Wombats always win the day. Episode 8: After discovering that Super takes an hour for herself every day, the Wombats go on a quest to create the perfect \"Me Time.\" Next, after a too-calm \"Quiet Day,\" Zadie yearns to make some noise with her Really Big, Really Loud Noisy Thing!
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Alone together
Despite enjoying a lovely friendship with Goose and Fox, Bear sometimes needs \"alone time.\"
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No Country for Illiterate Men? Reading Western Literature in the Wake of November 5
This essay reflects on the 2024 US presidential election in light of the conservative movement’s increasing conflation of fact and literary fiction. Recent mobilizations of literature by J. D. Vance, Curtis Yarvin, and Clarence Thomas not only illustrate how literature and literary value can be weaponized in support of right-wing political programs, but also how these readers deliberately obfuscate the distinction between truth and narrative to construct alternative realities. In conclusion, the essay briefly reads Gustavo Petro’s conspicuous invocations of One Hundred Years of Solitude as a cautionary tale for opponents of the MAGA movement not to simply imitate the far right’s deliberate strategies of conflation.
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