Against Interpretation, and Other EssaysItem consists of a selection of articles and reviews written between 1962 and 1965. |
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... fantasy , a fantasy of united warfare . ( The same wishful UN theme cropped up in a recent spectacular which is not science fiction , Fifty - Five Days in Peking [ 1963 ] . There , topically enough , the Chinese , the Boxers , play the ...
... fantasy , a fantasy of united warfare . ( The same wishful UN theme cropped up in a recent spectacular which is not science fiction , Fifty - Five Days in Peking [ 1963 ] . There , topically enough , the Chinese , the Boxers , play the ...
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... fantasy beautifies the world . In the other , it neutralizes it . The fantasy in science fiction films does both jobs . The films re- flect world - wide anxieties , and they serve to allay them . They incul- cate a strange apathy ...
... fantasy beautifies the world . In the other , it neutralizes it . The fantasy in science fiction films does both jobs . The films re- flect world - wide anxieties , and they serve to allay them . They incul- cate a strange apathy ...
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... fantasy now because we are too close to it , because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies , the fantastic na- ture of which we don't perceive . We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as fantasy when it is not our own . 31 ...
... fantasy now because we are too close to it , because it resembles too closely our own everyday fantasies , the fantastic na- ture of which we don't perceive . We are better able to enjoy a fantasy as fantasy when it is not our own . 31 ...
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