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the strangeness in this story is that the world functions backwards. it almost feels like time travel, even though it isn't exactly. the story manages to move backwards while progressing forward. the story begins after the demolition of the protagonist home , then follows by his death, and then continues backwards to b being married and then before his marriage. we also smaller examples of this by the way the candles go from being used to completely new and as the house goes from being debris to the nails going back into place.

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"...all the clocks in the house were striking five, then half past four, then four, then half past three..."

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"stones leaped up and unerringly filled the gaps in the walls. the nail-studded walnut doors fitted themselves into their frames, while the screws rapidly twisted back into the holes in the hinges."

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the ice man is a story that does not seem very strange at the start but as you read more you begin to see more things that are odd. the ice man himself s very strange character because instead of having his name be a figurative representation of him it's the opposite. his exterior is cold (his fingers are frosted, he eats little) but his personality is warm because of his kindness. he also has no past, and no idea where or to who he was born. as the story progresses and the ice man travels to the south pole, he slowly becomes colder on the inside to match his physical exterior and surroundings.

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this story takes place in a location somewhere in the galaxy that isn't earth. all the people on the planet are deaf and communicate through two ways through sign language and light. the strangeness experienced in this story is not from the readers perspective but from the characters. the characters who live on this planet find it very odd that people from earth communicate through sound, and find it even more odd and disappointing that the younger generation of their planet is getting ear and throat implants to communicate through sounds as well.

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"the old man obviously knew about recent events im her mother-in-law's house where all the children, except flowers-in-the-sun, had been given the ear and throat implants. lately, her implanted nieces and nephews had stopped signing. now all they did was mouth-talk among themselves, indulging in "sounds" which the rest could neither hear or understand."

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"the purple warning lights of the market flashed: three slow blinks, then two long ones."

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"i have no past. i know the past of everything else, and preserve it. but i have no past myself. i have no idea where i was born. i don't know what my parents looked like, or whether i even had any. i don't know how old i am, or if i even have an age."

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"the ice man looked young, though that was offset by the white strands, like patches of leftover snow, mixed in among his stiff, wiry head of hair. he was tall, his cheeks were sharply chiseled like frozen crags, his fingers covered with frost that looked like it would never, ever melt. other than this, he looked perfectly normal."