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No Exit from Half-Life: Demiurges and Unanswered Questions in Ubik “He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from the outside.” This is one of the key ideas behind one of the …
“Who are you?” She sounds like her smile: twinkling with curiosity, teasing just enough. Her eyes narrow with mischief as she sips from her drink—iced latte, even though we’re in winter. Then again, the coffee shop is warm enough for it. I don’t …
When Books Offend Us: What Our Taste Reveals About Ourselves “You don’t have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with non-readers, non-learners, non-knowers?” Perhaps that is why we are slowly losing our ability to …
The World Doesn't Need You: Existentialism in Annihilation “My work amounted to a futile attempt to save us from who we are.” This is a quaint statement on the tendencies of humankind, as discussed in a book with so many facets as only …
Lies That Become Truths: Twisted History in Snail “A masterful, highly organised, carefully crafted offensive by the present on the past.” This is the central theme we will analyse on a book banned for over twenty years and now boasting a …
It was mid-2022, and I was depressed. The type of depression that makes me remember that time as if it were a black-and-white silent film. There was no motion, just stagnation; no sounds, no music, no nothing—not even sadness or despair. I remember …
