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[Delusions of... Everything] Delusions of... Everything: Three Things: TrackBack. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a0105363a3a44970c01348034d57b970c. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Three Things: ... Places I've been: Taos NM, Maui HI, Las Vegas. Regular Email: Gretchen (working on a benefit), tons of facebook, Tom. Food I love to eat: chips with lots of crunch, salad, cookies (homemade only). looking forward: a vacation in NM, finishing a HUGE building project, being debt free ...

[f-log just another web log] good old orange and the factory reset: Have a DS? buy this game, most places are doing it for 20 brand new. Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:32:07 GMT http://www.jumpstation.co.uk/flog/Jan2010.html#090120102132 I needed to test a phone line a short while back but could not remember the ...

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[Imladris Abbey] What's so Funny? « Imladris Abbey: For the most part, church tends to be a place where I have experienced the most tears, the most sadness, and well I wonder, “Is that really the joy of the Lord?” So, yes, I say handing out a bunch of sour gum balls, releasing the pressures of life and returning to grade school humor is very much needed.

[Textbook Definition] Science in Cooking - How to Teach Science While Cooking « Textbook ...: Steam or mist is invisible or colorless and tasteless. But when you place a metal lid above the boiling pot of water, the steam becomes water again.

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[Josephmallozzi's Weblog] April 21, 2010: Author Christopher Barzak Answers Your Questions ...: CB: I would definitely categorize the book as a fantasy novel.  Obviously there are ghosts in it.  And mountain spirits that offer a young Japanese pilgrim girl the truth about her life.  A man acquires his blindness from another blind person.  Another character is cursed to live within his dreams, unable to wake.  To me, all of these elements aren’t realistic.  Are they?  Now, that said, is it what avid readers of the Scifi/Fantasy genre would label as a fantasy?  No.  But I think that’s a very limited view of what fantasy literature is.  There are a wide variety of fantasies in existence, and the kind I write is simply one of those kinds.  It’s a sort of magical realism, I suppose.  Or a contemporary fantasy, in that it’s fantasy that occurs in a contemporary real world setting.  But not everything that occurs within it is reality-based.  Here’s another difference:  when I write fantasy, it’s subtle, and I like to make the fantasy elements feel as real as the familiar reality of the real world settings I write within.  So it’s unconventional fantasy, rather than the conventional fantasy that is largely shelved in the Scifi/Fantasy section of a bookstore, which is why my books are largely shelved in General Fiction.  But are they fantasies?  Yes.  They’re fantasies of the real world.  And I always attempt to forge the fantasy elements out of the cultures in which my stories are set.  In the case of The Love We Share Without Knowing, many of the fantasy elements are grown out of the folklore and mythology of Japanese culture.  For example, the curse that can trap a person in their dreams is a real curse, an Old Wive’s tale of course, but of the Japanese culture itself.  I took it and made it literally happen in my book.  In my first novel, One for Sorrow, the fantasy elements are largely grown out of a Christ-haunted rural/post-industrial region of Ohio where ghost stories are plentiful, and believers in ghosts are as plentiful.  In my writing, I want the fantasy to grow out of the reality and cultural beliefs of a place, to literalize it and observe it as if it could be real, rather than imposing some fantasy element that has nothing to do with the inherent nature of a place and the people who live there.  Perhaps this is organic fantasy? 

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