A complete exhalation is necessary to fully relax your diaphragm.
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She could not help a very small exhalation of relief.
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His reaction -- a deep breath, exhalation, nervous laughter -- confirms the danger.
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The Fifth Suite's Sarabande was a long, sinuous exhalation of melancholy.
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And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
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Ted Chiang's "Exhalation," which I should have read many moons ago.
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I could feel my heartbeat slow with each focused inhalation and exhalation.
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I breathe, maybe the first conscious inhalation and exhalation of the day.
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It's a composition, but it also feels like a sharp, defiant exhalation.
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We are reading the penultimate short story in Ted Chiang's collection Exhalation.
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Then exhale as slowly as you can, deliberately slowing down your exhalation.
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Then count to three on the inhalation and six on the exhalation.
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The effect is to make every story in Exhalation feel achingly possible.
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The stories in Exhalation are a shining example of science fiction at its best.
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There are moments of undeniable celebration and camaraderie, others of quiet and lonely exhalation.
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Instead, a deep rhythm of inhalation and exhalation was audible, an almost sexual breathing.
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They found that surgical masks decreased the exhalation of large viral droplets 25-fold.
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Knopf / 21789 pages / May 17913 This year for me it was Ted Chiang's "Exhalation".
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It'll also be included in Chiang's new collection, Exhalation, which is due out in May.
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Invite yourself to feel the lightness and buoyancy of inhalation and the emptying of exhalation.
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Continue to focus on your breathing, counting each inhalation and exhalation, until you reach 10.
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Why did you want to temporally pair the animated GIF to a long inhalation and exhalation?
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As you read the final short story in Exhalation, here are some questions to think about:
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We take these pauses, these moments of exhalation, for granted, but we should clutch them close.
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Body sweat, carbon dioxide exhalation and the dust brought in by visitors can damage works of art.
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Once you've established a long, deep breath, begin repeating a mantra to coincide with each inhalation and exhalation.
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For the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang's Exhalation.
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In his new collection, " Exhalation " (Knopf), his second, Chiang again presents elaborate thought experiments in narrative modes that initially seem familiar.
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The informal TechCrunch book club is now venturing into the short story "Exhalation," the second piece in Ted Chiang's eponymous collection.
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All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe.
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By the Book The author of "The Resisters" and other books has put off reading the story collection "Exhalation," by Ted Chiang.
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And at the end (Track 15), we're offering you a big Baroque exhalation, some of the calmest, most gorgeous music ever written.
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From standing, use an exhalation to squat down and place your left hand on top of a yoga block or other similar support.
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He opens his mouth wide, lips relaxed, panting audibly in the same "huh-huh-huh" rhythm of inhalation and exhalation as human laughter.
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I read an interview on Pitchfork where I thought the way you described the EP, as a "sigh," or exhalation, was really interesting.
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"You just stay focused on what's happening — inhalation, exhalation, how people are coming out of a pose, how far they're going," she said.
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It is a bit like the choo without the aah, an "audible, rapid forced exhalation through the nose" as Ms. Walker put it.
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When it walks, wildflowers sprout, grow and die from wherever its cloven hoofs land; with a soft exhalation, it can kill or revive.
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And every exhalation also increases the amount of carbon dioxide in the environment, which too, over some time, can make it harder to breathe.
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This sadness clings most tenaciously to Jeremy, whose belief that he can hold his breath indefinitely symbolizes an existence that allows for no exhalation.
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This week, we read a very short story, The Great Silence, as we start to head toward the end of Ted Chiang's Exhalation collection.
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With each exhalation, the whale spouts some of its bodily cells along with some of the hormones and organisms that make up its microbiome.
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Colson Whitehead has a blurb on the front cover of "Exhalation," and Barack Obama has one on the back, so this is rarefied air.
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Since 1963, the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux have been closed to visitors because of the harm caused by human perspiration, exhalation and body heat.
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After many weeks (and a somewhat inconsistent publishing schedule), we have arrived at the final story of Ted Chiang's Exhalation collection, number nine of nine.
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It's a symbol we saw most substantively in Exhalation (the short story itself, not this whole collection) which we talked about a few posts ago.
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In its final moments, the piece took on the feeling of a meditative exhalation, suggesting prior touchstones like "Music for 18 Musicians," without seeming derivative.
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His latest collection of stories, Exhalation, features nine original, thought-provoking pieces of fiction that deal with time, space, and humanity's place in the universe.
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The longest and most ambitious of the stories in Exhalation is the novella "The Lifecycle of Software Objects," which is Chiang's take on the robot story.
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There, doctors recorded her issues: cough, difficulty breathing that was worsening by the minute, and sudden stabbing pains in the chest with every inhalation and exhalation.
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Over 10 years, the average decline in lung function for the entire group was a little over 300 milliliters of volume on inhalation and exhalation tests.
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Exhalation — the newest short-story collection from Ted Chiang, author of the novella that was adapted into the 2016 Amy Adams movie Arrival — is not jewel-like.
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And, there is the slapping of the thigh, body and heading-shaking, and a near-breathlessness brought about by deep patterns of exhalation that systematically accompany laughter.
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That's reflected in the range of vocal approaches he takes on "Blonde": heavy-sigh exhalation, digitally manipulated childlike singing, forceful spoken word, sleepy-eyed rapping, obscured conversation.
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In time, the kids help teach Dumbo to fly, coaxing him with a feather he snuffles into his trunk: He sneezes, and the exhalation sends him up.
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Upon finishing his performance, DeGraw took a step back in exhalation and threw his hands up in the air, but missed the carpeted area set up for him.
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That victory was the most consequential vote which the small country has had for decades: it caused an exhalation of relief from mainstream politicians all over Europe and beyond.
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For the first round we repeated that 30 times breathing in and out of the nose, at the end holding on to the exhalation as long as we could.
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Facial hair poses a risk to the effectiveness of respirators because it may keep the exhalation valve from working properly if the two come into contact, the infographic said.
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It's title a mission statement for the year ahead, and its contents a tense exhalation of a year of "negative energy" and loss on both a personal and existential scale.
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And a fire running as fast as this one can suck serious wind, gasping in a constant breath that pulls the ground-level air inward to replace its convective exhalation.
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This is the first study to use a mannequin that emulates human breathing with inhalation and exhalation, and relies on what's now considered the most accurate and streamlined analysis methods.
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Another sort of civilizational threat is illustrated in the parable "Exhalation," where we learn that "the great lung of the world, the source of all our nourishment," is gradually failing.
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One of the most powerful B-sides is "Paradise," a welcome exhalation that presents listeners with the option to ignore ambitious dreams and instead be content in the here and now.
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Whatever his motives, whatever his intentions, this is how it ends: nose pressed against the cold metal of a tray, frothing a pool of warm piss into bubbles with every exhalation.
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For "13 scuptures from Each Number Equals One Inahaltion and One Exhalation," Richard Ibghy and Marilou Lemmens mined data that examined human productivity over the past three centuries in various fields.
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"Cuando Tu Quieras" shuffles along over metallic clinks and water droplets, punctuating the chorus with what sounds like a digitally elongated exhalation, looped and artificially modulated to align with the melody.
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We will talk about Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom, and then some concluding thoughts on the whole *Exhalation *collection for those who have walked with us every step of the way.
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Some further quick notes: Most of the stories in Exhalation have been pieces of deep imagination, filled with worlds that, while tethered to our experience on Earth, remain quite distant to it.
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"One way the body releases ketone bodies is through exhalation therefore making the breath sweet and fruity," says New York-based dietician Amy Shapiro, putting somewhat of a positive spin on the odor.
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In that work, you noted that the timing of the GIF was calibrated to correspond with a deep inhalation and exhalation, a connection to the body that I see throughout most of your work.
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Each 3 parts per billion (ppb) of ozone in the air was associated with a lung function decline of 18 ml on a test of forced exhalation, and 40 ml on an inhalation test.
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And as always, some more notes: This is a much more sprawling story than the earlier short stories in Exhalation, with much more of a linear plot than the fractal koans we experienced before.
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We've come to the end of Exhalation, and in light of the book's symbol, we can take a breath now to take a look at all that Chiang has put together with these various stories.
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However, almost all men with beards should probably consider grabbing a razor and doing some work, because the CDC says the hair could get in the way of the respirator's exhalation valve ... rendering it ineffective.
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These babies are too frail and weak to breathe on their own; they often lack a lining in the lungs known as surfactant that keeps tiny air spaces called alveoli from collapsing with each exhalation.
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Ted Chiang's EXHALATION (Knopf, $25.95) collects nine deeply beautiful stories (two original to the collection, the rest published over the last 14 years), many of which explore the material consequences of various kinds of time travel.
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He talked about his first time appearing as his Trump supporting character, walking out with Trump's face on the American flag, and the exhalation it brought him to portray a villain immediately relevant to the crowd.
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The stories in "Exhalation" are mostly not so magically inventive as those in Chiang's first collection, but each is still likely to linger in the memory the way riddles may linger—teasing, tormenting, illuminating, thrilling. ♦
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As "Mad Max: Fury Road" confirmed, she's a natural warrior, but it's interesting here that each exertion and exhalation, each meaty, pulpy thump, also seems to be battering the fortifications that she has built around her.
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Recently, though, I picked up Ted Chiang's new book of short stories, EXHALATION, having already read his prior collection, "Stories of Your Life and Others," and seen the movie "Arrival," which is based on one of his stories.
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Some further quick notes: We are only three stories into Exhalation, but already there are threads that are starting to connect these disparate stories, none more important than the meaning of fate in lives increasingly filled with technological determinism.
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"As you do this hold in your mind that with every inhalation you are bringing a calming, clarifying wisdom to your true self, and with every exhalation you are completely letting go of any tension, frustration, or fear inside," he wrote.
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Cone-shaped cloth masks that cover the whole lower face and have exhalation vents did much better, removing up to 90 percent of the synthesized dust particles and almost 60 percent of the diesel exhaust that the researchers pumped through them.
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" That sound you hear is a giant exhalation of relief coming from the vicinity of Flushing Bay, because as Collins had said before the game, "If we're going to get back in this thing, he's got to lead the way.
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Moments of joy and surprise abound too — especially on U.F.O.F.'s "Jenni," an enraptured exhalation of guitar static and breathy delight, with few lyrics besides "Jenni's in my room," which Lenker repeats again and again, as if trying to believe it.
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It was when the voices matched the strangeness of the rest — as in an eerie three-person chorus of coughing and choking, or a passage of shadowy offstage singing met with an uneasy instrumental exhalation — that the opera was most memorable.
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NT: I actually picked it out because I knew from studying your carbon dioxide exhalation yesterday... TH: Exactly, we're manipulating each other now… The point is that even if you know that I'm just making that up, it still actually feels good.
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They include: "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang, which explores the material consequences of time travel; Sarah Broom's memoir, "The Yellow House," on growing up in New Orleans; and "Night Boat to Tangier" by Kevin Barry, about two Irish gangster antiheroes on the Spanish coast.
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The shows tend to be unpredictable genre-wise, but to my ears, they most often follow this rhythm, a tentative unfolding, a tempered exhalation to start the week's worst day (it has always been my opinion that the famous cartoon cat's malaise was misdirected).
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An Englishman who spent a decade as a Buddhist monk, Puddicombe's words would guide the ethics staffers through a series of meditative exercises, such as focusing on their breath's inhalation and exhalation, or on imagining the image of liquid sunlight passing through their bodies.
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" Today (and one day late because of the MLK holiday), I give some thoughts on the first short story of the collection, "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" and kick off the discussion for the second short story of the collection, the eponymous "Exhalation.
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Exhalation The sophomore novel from Charlie Jane Anders is set on a far planet — half of it frozen, and half of it burned under the glare of the sun, with human settlers living in two cities in the (sort of) temperate zone in between.
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Opinion Columnist BEIRUT — Lebanon was ahead of the game on civil war and now is last to the Arab Spring, or at least an Arab something — a vast, united exhalation of disgust at the thievery, corruption and nepotism that has caused widespread misery across this wounded land.
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As much as it accompanies the singers, the "Falstaff" orchestra converses with them, and on Thursday its responses — a golden brass exhalation here; an exclamation point in the low strings there; birdlike twitters of flute and oboe punctuating a rapid-fire dialogue — had unstinting comic timing.
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At any rate, there eventually came a moment when the light in the living zone was switched on, and very soon after that I heard the distinctive exhalation of the refrigerator door being opened, and the splashing, or plashing, of a liquid being poured into a glass.
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The informal TechCrunch book club (which is now a whole week off schedule thanks to the news cycle — let's see if we can catch up here shortly!) is now venturing into the very, very short story What's Expected of Us, the third piece in Ted Chiang's Exhalation collection.
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Here are the books discussed in this week's "What We're Reading": "Minor Characters" by Joyce Johnson "The Path to Power" by Robert A. Caro "Here" by Richard McGuire "Exhalation" by Ted Chiang We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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Now, to take one aside before we close out: Exhalation is a collection of previously-published short stories, but Chiang manages to work in his arch-symbol of breath and air into this piece in a fairly tight way: It's no coincidence that "aspiration" means both hope and the act of breathing.
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Ibghy & Lemmens have created work based on the graph model that is clever and amusing, and their series Each Number Equals One Inhalation and One Exhalation (2016) is far more successful: in it, simple wood forms combined with string and acetate films stand as miniature architectural models for commonplace objects such as footballs goals and blackboards.
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And while it was hard to pinpoint the exact moment at which Ms. Chase's part began to move, by the end, the effect of a slow but steady descent was keenly felt — as was the gradual deepening of a connection between Ms. Chase and the other performers, thanks to some mirroring of pulses and exhalation effects.
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If you haven't already, be sure to check out the previous editions of this book club which explores the first two (larger) short stories in the collection, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate, a beautiful story exploring predestination and fate, and Exhalation, a vital yet subtle story about climate change, the connections between people and society, and so, so much more.
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"By injecting a small amount of carbon dioxide gas into the area, we are 'tricking' the body into increasing the oxygen flow to the area by compelling the red blood cells to pick up all of the excess CO2 that we injected so that it can be carried back to the lungs for elimination from the body with the next exhalation," Dr. Zdinak says.
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It has the reflective effect of breathwork—the delicately arranged passages feel like a sharp intake of air and then the move back to abstraction is a more controlled exhalation—putting you in a headspace to mull over the themes that he intended to shape this release: cosmogony (the science of the origin of the universe), creation myths, the structure and tensile strength of ropes (hence the title), and the movement of rivers.
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In Ted Chiang's parable-like short story "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling," from his new collection, "Exhalation," a teenager in a preliterate West African village is taught to read and write by a European missionary but finds it impossible to capture the performance of the village's best storyteller in the new medium: When Kokwa told the story, he didn't merely use words; he used the sound of his voice, the movement of his hands, the light in his eyes.
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Some of the books are more surreal: Ted Chiang's Exhalation (by the author of the short story that became the film Arrival) is a collection of science fiction short stories that tackles big questions with a sense of scientific allure; Haruki Murakami's Men Without Women is also a collection of mysterious short stories that explore the relationship between men and women and will "sometimes leave you with more questions than answers"; and Téa Obreht's new book Inland introduces haunted people and places while holding on to the same dreamlike elements that made her debut novel The Tiger's Wife so successful.
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