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Sorry, I'm still high on my lifesaving act of genius.
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I'm glad Mark Zuckerberg did it, but it wasn't an act of genius; it's an act of timing.
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" He called the scenes from Betty's funeral in Ballyferriter "a minor act of genius in a small community" and "a tremendous working-class example of social distancing.
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Andrade is recognized by his nationalist, Manifesto Antropófago (Cannibalist Manifesto), published in 1928. The manifesto argues that based on the premise that the history of Brazil has, as its greatest strength, the power to cannibalize others and simultaneously plays with the idea of cannibalism as a modern primitivism; like a presumed tribal rite. Cannibalism then, becomes a way for Brazil to reaffirm itself against the cultural domination of Post Colonial Europe. The iconic phrase of the manifesto "Tupi or not Tupi" is as much a celebration of the Tupinamba, a documented tribe of cannibals, as it is an act of genius cannibalizing Shakespeare's, "To be or not to be".
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Muir (1947), One Touch of Venus and Portrait of Jennie, both 1948. An astonishing anticipation of the full "sword and sorcery" genre was made in 1941 in Italy by Alessandro Blasetti. La Corona di Ferro presents the struggles of two imaginary kingdoms around the legendary Iron Crown (historically the ancient crown of Italy), with war, cruelty, betrayal, heroism, sex, magic and mysticism, a whirl of events taken from every possible fairy tale and legend source Blasetti could find. This movie is unlike anything done before; indeed, considering that it was finished fifteen years before the publication of Lord Of The Rings, its invention of a vast, national epic mythology is an act of genius.
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Stacey D'Erasmo, in a review for The New York Times, describes Nazi Literature in the Americas as: > “a wicked, invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary > tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting knives. As if he were > Borges’s wisecracking, sardonic son, Bolaño has meticulously created a > tightly woven network of far-right littérateurs and purveyors of belles > lettres for whom Hitler was beauty, truth and great lost hope." Michael Dirda, of The Washington Post found that the novel, "very much deserves reading: It is imaginative, full of a love for literature, and, unlikely as it may seem, exceptionally entertaining." John Brenkman of The Village Voice sees the book as both a satire and an elegy, stating, > "Nazi Literature in the Americas is first of all a prank, an act of genius > wasting its time in parodic attacks on a hated sort of writer.
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