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Gan's experience with 'strangeness' is one of love and sacrifice. 

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Gan's experience with 'strangeness' is one of love and sacrifice. 

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"I lay against T'Gatoi's long, velvet underside" (Butler 630)

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"I lay against T'Gatoi's long, velvet underside" (Butler 630)

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Gan recognizes the strangeness of T'Gatoi. She has an 'underside' which is more akin to how one would describe an animal like a snake. Gan however also sees something luxurious in her, as shown in the word 'velvet'. It is Gan's attraction to T'Gatoi's strangeness that he is able to love her and in the end, sacrifice for her.

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The Ice Man's 'strangeness' is a marker of loneliness.

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The Ice Man's 'strangeness' is a marker of loneliness.

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"I knew the South Pole was going to be a lonely place, but it turned out to be lonelier than anything I could have imagined" (Murakami 796).

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"I knew the South Pole was going to be a lonely place, but it turned out to be lonelier than anything I could have imagined" (Murakami 796).

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The Ice Man and his wife are shunned by the people at home. His wife becomes 'othered' because of her love for The Ice Man, and as a result his 'strangeness' becomes part of her.

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Strangeness for Ivan is partnered by ridiculousness. 

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Strangeness for Ivan is partnered by ridiculousness. 

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"Perfect  nonsense  goes  on in the world. Sometimes  there  is  no plausibility  at  all: suddenly,  as  if nothing  was  wrong,  that  same nose  which had driven  about in the rank of state  councillor and made  such  a  stir  in  town  was back  in  place" (Gogol 323). 

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"Perfect  nonsense  goes  on in the world. Sometimes  there  is  no plausibility  at  all: suddenly,  as  if nothing  was  wrong,  that  same nose  which had driven  about in the rank of state  councillor and made  such  a  stir  in  town  was back  in  place" (Gogol 323). 

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It is a mystery as to how the nose ended up in the bread and how it got back to the right place, and the nonsense of the story is the point. Ivan's experience with strangeness allows space for skepticism but also space for the limits of 'strangeness' to be pushed.

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Butler, Octavia "Bloodchild" The Weird edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Atlantic Books. 2011.

Murakami, Haruki. "The Ice Man" The Weird edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer. Atlantic Books. 2011.

Gogol, Nikolai. "The Nose" PDF Accessed via Canvas.