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As David Bowie liked to say: ‘Let go, or be dragged.’
— Jan 13, 2024 03:22PM
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[....] Blyton isn’t really concerned with the not-child, except from the child’s perspective. There is none of Carroll’s somewhat sinisterly manicured dual-focus and telephoto-lens work.
— Jan 27, 2024 08:10AM
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Chapter 1: Covid period. Told in 3rd person.
"[Daddy] said that what uncanny has that weird doesn’t have is a feeling of the strangely familiar. He told her that in his lectures he’d encouraged his students to think about the meaning of ‘uncanny’ in terms of creepily uncomfortable recognition. The familiar becoming unfamiliar.... also the unfamiliar itself as spookily already known."
— Jan 11, 2024 05:05PM
"[Daddy] said that what uncanny has that weird doesn’t have is a feeling of the strangely familiar. He told her that in his lectures he’d encouraged his students to think about the meaning of ‘uncanny’ in terms of creepily uncomfortable recognition. The familiar becoming unfamiliar.... also the unfamiliar itself as spookily already known."
