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@QuetzalWoomy I wonder if this question is similar to the kinds of question the graphic novel asks us at the end, asking us if we will be bystanders.

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@Anna44332211 I thought that the mother child reference served a similar purpose than it did in dictee, also showing how there are some things the mother can’t protect the child from.

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In strangers drowning, after the narrator asks several questions he says “the philosophers features are kind, inscrutable” I wonder what this means, and how it related to the questions he’s just asked the reader, or the philosopher.

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“An Island Peopled only by our leaving”, I found the word peopled very interesting, it seems similar to populated, kind of like a verb noun where the noun people is turned into someone of past tense verb.

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In Marginalia there seems to be some kind of uneven spaces in the formatting, I wonder if this is on purpose. Assuming that it is, what purpose does it serve and is it just visual or rhythmic and well?

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@avaleonardsmc I feel like the images themselves immerse me more in the story being told, and the fragments are almost like sources, kind of like how a documentary might splice videos of pictures through its narrative to ground the reader into reality.

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@kaylynliv I think what’s interesting is that he finishes the thought with “ that’s how you sell stories”, kind of makes me think of the way morals are bent in the system of capitalism.

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Toward the end with the story of the boy being shit and prostrates catting him around, I thought it was interesting how the narrator challenged the binary of things having gone one way or another, emphasizing some of the challenges of retelling history.

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What is the significance of the color pallets used, the difference between the past and the present feels like a clear indicator of different time periods.

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The form of story telling is interesting, with the combination of the present narrative of the cartoonist, and the scenes with his early drawings or even past comics. It feels almost like you’re watching a documentary.

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The shift from colonial pluralism to state-controlled multiculturalism feels like rearranging the furniture in the same old house. Did anything really change?

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@MalloryAsis Perhaps it’s the case that one is the cause of the other, though I was also left confused on the exact distinction between the two things.

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@avaleonardsmc @zoekrank1 Yeah it seemed confusing to me as well, especially since plural and singular are antithetical to each other.

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If globalization is disrupting postcolonial multiculturalism, is that a good thing? Or is it just replacing one form of control with another?

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This essay makes me wonder: Would a postcolonial state ever be able to truly erase colonial racial structures, or is it too deeply embedded ?

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@kaylynliv I agree with you, and with the connections that remain to innocence and purity, I feel like this tells us alot about how the author views death, perhaps as a purifying force?

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How do themes of virginity in the first chapter connect to themes of the seedling and the magnolia at the start of the second chapter?

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At the end of the first texts it is said in italics “heaven which is not heaven without earth”, what is the relevance of this being in italics and how does it help unpack the meaning of the entire preceding phrase as well.

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@kaylynliv @nobile_sam99999 I agree, I think it could also have to do with the anticipation of grief, with death and the passing of time being two inevitable facts of life, it seems to me that loss and grief are bound to occur.

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Early on in the text there are thoughts about the onslaught of time and how all we have is the present, and it feels like she’s saying it in a way where we are non autonomous to our future. Like we are pushed and moved by time.