At the outset of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (1898), Wells asks his English readers to compare the Martian invasion of Earth with the Europeans' genocidal invasion of the Tasmanians, thus demanding that the colonizers imagine themselves as the colonized, or the about-to-be-colonized. But in Wells this reversal of perspective entails something more, because the analogy rests on the logic prevalent in contemporary anthropology that the indigenous, primitive other's present is the colonizer's own past. Wells's Martians invading England are like Europeans in Tasmania not just because they are arrogant colonialists invading a technologically inferior civilization, but also because, with their hypertrophied brains and prosthetic machines, they are a version of the human race's own future.
The confrontation of humans and Martians is thus a kind of anachronism, an incongruous co-habitation of the same moment by people and artifacts from different times. But this anachronism is the mark of anthropological difference, that is, the way late-nineteenth-century anthropology conceptualized the play of identity and difference between the scientific observer and the anthropological subject-both human, but inhabiting different moments in the history of civilization. As George Stocking puts it in his intellectual history of Victorian anthropology, Victorian anthropologists, while expressing shock at the devastating effects of European contact on the Tasmanians, were able to adopt an apologetic tone about it because they understood the Tasmanians as "living representatives of the early Stone Age," and thus their "extinction was simply a matter of … placing the Tasmanians back into the dead prehistoric world where they belonged" (282-83). The trope of the savage as a remnant of the past unites such authoritative and influential works as Lewis Henry Morgan's Ancient Society (1877), where the kinship structures of contemporaneous American Indians and Polynesian islanders are read as evidence of "our" past, with Sigmund Freud's Totem and Taboo (1913), where the sexual practices of "primitive" societies are interpreted as developmental stages leading to the mature sexuality of the West. Johannes Fabian has argued that the repression or denial of the real contemporaneity of so-called savage cultures with that of Western explorers, colonizers, and settlers is one of the pervasive, foundational assumptions of modern anthropology in general. The way colonialism made space into time gave the globe a geography not just of climates and cultures but of stages of human development that could confront and evaluate one another.
The anachronistic structure of anthropological difference is one of the key features that links emergent science fiction to colonialism. The crucial point is the way it sets into motion a vacillation between fantastic desires and critical estrangement that corresponds to the double-edged effects of the exotic. Robert Stafford, in an excellent essay on "Scientific Exploration and Empire" in the Oxford History of the British Empire, writes that, by the last decades of the century, "absorption in overseas wilderness represented a form of time travel" for the British explorer and, more to the point, for the reading public who seized upon the primitive, abundant, unzoned spaces described in the narratives of exploration as a veritable "fiefdom, calling new worlds into being to redress the balance of the old" (313, 315). Thus when Verne, Wells, and others wrote of voyages underground, under the sea, and into the heavens for the readers of the age of imperialism, the otherworldliness of the colonies provided a new kind of legibility and significance to an ancient plot. Colonial commerce and imperial politics often turned the marvelous voyage into a fantasy of appropriation alluding to real objects and real effects that pervaded and transformed life in the homelands. At the same time, the strange destinations of such voyages now also referred to a centuries-old project of cognitive appropriation, a reading of the exotic other that made possible, and perhaps even necessary, a rereading of oneself.
John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
The Marx Brothers left vaudeville and stepped up to the legitimate theater in 1924 with a show called I'll Say She Is. Unlike their subsequent shows such as Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts, it was never turned into a movie, although one historian has said that "Every Marx Brothers film contains material and situations that can be traced back to I'll Say She Is." Groucho called it "probably the funniest show we ever did."
I'll Say She Is toured for a year and a half before arriving on Broadway in May, 1924. No one expected it to succeed; the Broadway engagement was just a sop to the brothers, who had been threatening to leave the show unless it went to New York.
But the critics loved it. "It is a bright-colored and vehement setting for the goings-on of those talented cutups, the Four Marx Brothers," wrote Alexander Woollcott in the New York Sun, who went on to single out Harpo for special praise.
Maybe it was being on Broadway that led the brothers to bill themselves, in the program, as Herbert, Leonard, Julius H., and Arthur Marx. Not that anyone was fooled.
The show ran for 313 performances, which was excellent for the time. The brothers were lionized by New York society, and Harpo was invited to join the Algonquin Round Table.
Above: Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, and Chico, with Lotta Miles, in the sketch called "Napoleon's First Waterloo," in which Groucho played Boney. Source: illsaysheis.com
Below: a handbill from the performance of November 17, 1924. Source: NYPL
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give me five of your biases from a boy group and another five from a girl group.
(1) the ultimate (2) the wrecker (3 - 5) the runner ups
m i n e ;
the ultimate : kim jungwoo nct / lee yoobin (dami) dreamcatcher
the wrecker : hamada asahi treasure / lee chaeyoung (chaein) purple kiss
the runner ups : yeo hwanwoong oneus / lee chaeyoung (isa) stayc, ju haknyeon theboyz / moon sua billlie, kim minseok (xiumin) exo / kim minseo woo!ah!.
tysm for 2k followers ! if you told me when i started my blog 3 months ago that i would hit 2k followers, i would never have believed it! i am so grateful for all of the support and love shown to me throughout my time here! i'm so happy that you guys enjoy my blog!
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General Overarching Code
The equal sign is not a part of the code, it is just a means to simplify things. The first sign is supposed to look like a traditional division symbol.
*/. = divide from the kingdom / a divide is located there
<> = messengers needed / meeting between allies
< = sentries/robotic check in the next few days
> = traitor suspected
+ = check in went fine / traitor is gone
- = this faction of the divide has been caught. RUN
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sorry im late but, thank you sm for 800 !! thank you for all the love & support! and please dont forget me i was i-yunjin !! it means so so much and im so beyond grateful. ily all, tysm <3
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My question:-
What do my guides have to say for academics this year ?
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Well I'm abt to have my finals in Feb then last year of my school will start 🙃 till now I have gone through many constant failures ,lessons and win's loop ... I have finally realised what I have to follow this year in my life for academics through universe and divine .
I will have national entrance for university, national board examination conducted this year and my finals . I know hardwork is imp but I had like to know what my guides want to say for academics...any messages and guidance will help a lot this child sis .
505 313 222 111 000 are all interesting codes / number sequences you should follow
888 - infinite realities. you could make effort seem easy if you just apply your mental gifts more.
'you got it easy, love. chill out for a second' is a message from one of your angel guides.
look to archangel jopeil for help and guidance at school, which is related to creativity, beauty, and art. money is tight but with artistic abilities could bring you some financial good fortune.
archangel michael - patience, protection over your gifts , your mind needs less stress. and for what its worth, it'll keep you at peace while doing homework, essays, tests, etc. <3
you need to be easy on yourself, 'you got it easy' is what i keep hearing. luck. rejuvenation and spiritual tools (crystals, tarot, metaphysical items like a horse shoe or four leaf clover are significant)
the spiritual tools help with the aura to calm it down, less overwhelming energy around your aura so to speak. hope this helps you in the future.
i never expect to reach this far because honestly i post because i love doing mbs and never care if it will flop or turn bop. gaining a hundred + notes with some of my post is already bonus gift that i appreciate a lot, so thank you so much for everyone who support and love-like my work, you're all my motivation to keep going. we will grow more together! ( ps. I hate it when i didn't catch my exact 600 heh the tag of war happening- push and pull of my followers before it reach to this milestone but at least it hit before this month ends )