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by CG FEWSTON January 30, 2019 4

Fiction Pictures

The Magic Mountain (1924) by Thomas Mann & the Natures of Love & Death

“Death and love—no, I cannot make a poem of them, they don’t go together. Love stands opposed to death.”

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by CG FEWSTON September 28, 2016 2

Fiction

The Dark Forest: Remembrance of Earth’s Past #2 (2008/2015) by Cixin Liu & The Future of Humanity

“Suppose a vast number of civilizations are distributed throughout the universe, on the order of the number of detectable stars. Lots and lots of them. Those civilizations make up the body of a cosmic society. Cosmic sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society” (p 12).

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by CG FEWSTON March 26, 2014 6

Fiction Film Pictures Videos

Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury

Captain Beatty, in Fahrenheit 451, imagines how fire is much like censorship, both eradicated knowledge: “‘It’s perpetual motion…. What is fire? It’s a mystery… Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.’”