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There There
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When Marnie Was There
Carries a strong pull into books through folklore and identity.
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Welcome to the N.H.K.
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IndiEarth Out There, Season 1
Carries a strong pull into books through nature and longing.
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There Is a Balm in Gilead
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Cruising Utopia
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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
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The X-Files
1990s
Mulder and Scully investigate the paranormal. The truth is out there.
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When Marnie Was There
2010s
During a Literature Club meeting, the four club members—along with their faculty adviser's niece—suddenly find themselves with supernatural powers. Now capable of fabricating black flames, resident chuunibyou Jurai Andou is the most ecstatic about their new abilities; unfortunately, his own is only for show and unab...
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There Will Be Blood
2000s
An oil prospector's rise and moral collapse. American capitalism as Old Testament fury.
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Cruising Utopia
2000s
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity is a book in the field of queer theory by José Esteban Muñoz, published in 2009.
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The Three-Body Problem
First contact begins during the Cultural Revolution. Hard sci-fi with Chinese political history.
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Music 2010s
There Is a Balm in Gilead
Anime 2000s
Welcome to the N.H.K.
Twenty-two-year-old college dropout Tatsuhiro Satou has been a hikikomori for almost four years now. In his isolation, he has come to believe in many obscure conspiracy theories, but there is one in particular which he holds unshakable faith in: the theory that the evil conspirator behind his shut-in NEET (Not in Em...
Film 1990s
Three Colours: Red
Three Colours: Red is a 1994 film from France, Poland, and Switzerland, associated with Krzysztof Kieślowski. It keeps a wider cinema field of scale, memory, and regional contrast in view without reducing the title to a bare metadata shell.
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Essays 1970s
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. Zen practice for Western readers.
Books 2010s
A Tale for the Time Being
In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, she plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace. Across the Pacific a novelist...