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...more familiar to you than that of The Fountain unless you are a conquistador, research scientist or space traveler. At first lulling you with ordinariness, Huizenga then brilliantly brings the fantastic to the mundane, as in Ganges's opening tale, "Time Traveling." It starts with Ganges taking a walk to the library on an early spring day. As he strolls, he reminisces about doing the same thing at the same time the previous year. The following panel, with a note in the corner saying "Last spring," exactly mimics the panel preceding. Was it a flash back or did Glenn actually...
...pretty hypocritical - they attack me about my views on (Aboriginal land) ownership and I say, Do you own your own home? They usually say yes. I think they've lost touch a bit with the ordinary lives of people. But I get off the train in Redfern and walk to my office, and it confronts me every day. Aboriginal people say to me, At least you're here so we can give you a spray - others we never...
...council then passed without discussion an order to investigate installing a traffic light and pedestrian walk signal on Mass. Ave. and Church Street, outside Johnston Gate...
...take notice, he admits. "I tell girls I got blown up by an antitank mine in Iraq. It's cheesy, but it works." And he really has drunk out of his prosthetic leg--although he has learned to use a spare one so he doesn't have to walk around with a beer-soaked sock. "Made that mistake once," he says. How much beer does a leg hold, we ask, suspecting a trick. "More than a pitcher," he answers with a perfectly straight face...
...that really offends my acute sense of equality—is the case of the student I’ve nicknamed Mr. Canaday: the freshman who saunters thrice daily through the front door of centrally-located Canaday, positively glowing at the good fortune of his short walk to the dining hall. The morally arbitrary housing system gave him inherent advantages over me, who, as a Grays Easterner, lives hundreds of feet further (that’s, like, 50 steps!) from Annenberg and the mail center than Mr. Canaday. He was, it seems, one of the lucky few to enjoy...