& metonymy,

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I learned about Twilight as a novel when I taught eighth graders at a tutorial school. After its publication on 5 October 2005, within a fortnight, the novel became a student handbook — literally to be found in everybody’s hands. It was quite a sight to see a roomful of early teenagers lovesick with their imaginary vampires (the multiple forms of Edward Cullen) and the ardent ways in which these young readers discussed the text. —from “The Poetics of Addiction: Stardom, “Feminized” Spectatorship, and Interregional Business Relations in the Twilight Series” by Victor Fan. Camera Obscura (issue 79) 2012.

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Damaged poster for Kamran Qadakchian’s movie Bandari (1973), showing a skirt painted, with magic marker or black ink, on the image of the female star to extend the miniskirt originally depicted. From A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 3: The Islamicate Period, 1978-1984 (Duke University Press, 2012). 

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“Barbeque is the great sacrament of our people. No transubstantiation required. It are what it are.”

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