In Denis Villeneuve’s 2010 film "Incendies" siblings seek a brother and father never known to deliver letters from their recently deceased mother.
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Read Viewed Consumed | 2020-10
October is a good month to watch horror movies and read scary stories, but I read my scary stories over the summer and …
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- 2020-11-01
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report
“Anxiety … Dizziness … Freedom”: Paraself Virtue
Ted Chiang’s “Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom” considers the ethical effects of the consulation with a paraself, a self known through quantum computing.
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- 2020-10-18
- On Literature, Books Short Story Month
“The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling”: Writing on Trial
Writing explores writing in Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling,” in a story constructed of two different stories, the one of which bears a self-conscious narrator and the other lacking.
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- 2020-10-04
- On Literature, Books Short Story Month
Read Viewed Consumed |2020-09
Cultural consumption involved George Saunders’ consummately misanthropic CivilWarLand, as well as Pygmalion (1938) and The 49th Parallel (1944)
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- 2020-10-03
- Monthly Reading, Viewing Report