Depictions of Strangeness by Juan Valenzuela https://padlet.com/jvale115/su2rujopqmksl00v en-us 2022-09-23 19:43:18 UTC 2022-09-23 22:23:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Mist and Ion: Strangeness of Physical Augmentations jvale115 https://padlet.com/jvale115/su2rujopqmksl00v/wish/2311064937 "'Flowers-in-the-Sun requested her implants?...'
But why would she cut her throat? With one dismissive gesture, Ion indicated that his wife was being unduly worried. He signed that he had seen enough implanted people. The cutting was a small thing, nothing for her to get so worked up about. He repeated again that he and Mist had been dreamers, that they had sacrificed their lives for love. But the child wanted what the child wanted and shouldn't children receive what they ask for?

'Dreamers should not sacrifice their children,' he signed. 'If we do the cutting now, when she becomes a young woman she will have great skill in mouth-speaking. She will truly be multilingual...'" (McDonell 206-207).]]> 2022-09-23 20:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jvale115/su2rujopqmksl00v/wish/2311064937 Flowers-in-the-Sun: Strangeness of Names jvale115 https://padlet.com/jvale115/su2rujopqmksl00v/wish/2311115838 "When she  returned home to Ion's family's compound, she  was greeted by Ion's mother and Flowers-in-the-Sun. 

'Daughter Mine,' Ion's mother, Shadow-of-Light-Turning said, 'Flowers-in-the-Sun has been telling me about her day.'" (McDonnell 204). 
]]> 2022-09-23 22:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jvale115/su2rujopqmksl00v/wish/2311115838 Aseem: Strangeness in the Perception of Time, Space, and People jvale115 https://padlet.com/jvale115/su2rujopqmksl00v/wish/2311129271 "When he was younger, he thought that apparitions he saw were ghosts of the dead, but now he knows that is not true. Now he has a theory that his visions are tricks of time, tangles produced when one part of the time-stream rubs up against another and the two cross for a moment. He has decided (after years of struggle) that he is not insane after all; his brain is wired differently from others, enabling him to discern these temporal coincidences. He knows he is not the only one with this ability, because some of the people he sees also see him, and shrink back in terror. The thought that he is ghost to people long dead or still to come in this world both amuses and terrifies him" (Singh 80).]]> 2022-09-23 22:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jvale115/su2rujopqmksl00v/wish/2311129271