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Tag Archives: Harry Potter
Checking Your Delusions
The method for checking our many delusions—that the Harry Potter letter is going to arrive for us any moment, that god is carefully listening to my prayers about the cancer He gave my mother, that the earth is flat, the … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Culture, Internet, News of the World, Supernatural, Superstition
Tagged climate change denial, Council of Nicaea, delusions, Eratosthenes, existence of god, flat earth, flouride in the water, Harry Potter, moon landing hoax, scientific discovery, Watchmaker's Analogy, William Paley
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Textual Reality and the Phenomenological World
Although my friend’s daughter asked me one time if the story I had just told her was a “true story,” most people acknowledge—however reluctantly in the case of Harry Potter fans—that the characters in the stories they read are fictional. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literary Theory, Literature, Media, Writing
Tagged Harry Potter, Helen of Troy, Hogwarts, Hunger Games, Linda Hutcheon, Marshall McLuhan, Phenomenology, Racist Jesus, reality, The Appearance of Solidity, twilight, Wolfgang Iser, writerly text
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The Body Out of Control
For some reason literary treatment of the body out of control is both evocative and frequently avoided. You can think of Margaret Laurence’s Stone Angel which is touted as being such a great portrayal of a disintegrating mind, but one … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Theory, Literature, Singularity
Tagged Charles Stross, Gulliver’s Travels, Harry Potter, Margaret Lawrence, meatspace, Singularity, Stone Angel
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