Strangeness

We're suspending our disbelief anyway; we know that this strangeness is all a conceit and therefore "could not have happened" (we can hardly ignore the clear literalisation of the figurative that the story is built around, that "dead car" metaphor of daily language), but we are playing the game of all fiction, strange or otherwise, pretending that it "could have happened". ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

"Which 'Labyrinth' Character are you?" brought to you by Quizilla and who couldn't love being compared to this guy? possibly not for obvious reasons, but the strangeness is attractive * smiles* or something ... am not rambling today: P ❋ Mynxii (2003)

Perhaps it is better to let the musicality of Lorca's language flow over you, catching up later with Ms. Svich's English rendering to remember what she describes as the strangeness but also the "lucid wakefulness of Lorca's writing." ❋ By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO (2011)

Duncan Fyfe at Hit Self-Destruct this week writes about the certain strangeness we have come to accept in our game protagonists. ❋ Ben Abraham (2009)

On the other hand, the first encounter with any country, with the unavoidable (and wonderful) strangeness, is one of the most exciting and perspective-enhancing experiences one can have. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their strangeness is more suggested than detailed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The strangeness is not there to be explicated away, but to be exploited. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

If multiple anomalies are introduced into a text, each potentially carrying its own distinct boulomaic modality or tension of modalities, how do the interactions of residual modalities affect the reader's reactions and the subsequent shifts as and when each new strangeness is first introduced and then resolved into an anomaly? ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

Whatever the direction, more strangeness is bound to come. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The very point of the strangeness is that it "could not be happening". ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

In this story that strangeness is slight, a single breach of the subjunctivity level that we are, in fact, quite capable of reading as not a breach at all. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

The strangeness is placed centre-frame here -- literally -- the apparent impossibility of the car's heart surrounded by the mundane mechanisms. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

If multiple artifices are introduced into a text, each potentially carrying its own distinct boulomaic modality or tension of modalities, how do the interactions of residual modalities affect the reader's reactions and the subsequent shifts as and when each new strangeness is first introduced and then resolved into an artifice? ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

As the sheriff glances back at his captive, this sense of strangeness is reinforced in the otherness of the man in the back, Sigurh with his pudding-bowl haircut and clothes that belong in the Seventies city, in the civilisation of a night-club, a strip-joint. ❋ Hal Duncan (2008)

After calling [the 900] number that was printed on [the package] for help, the customer rep said "That's strange!!" And I knew that I was [truly fucked]. ❋ Stephan Smolka (2010)

[I need] to go out and [get me] [some strange] tonight. ❋ Fancypants (2003)

My girl is [getting on my nerves] so [let me hit] [the club] and get some strange. ❋ JWM Miko (2003)

Bob: Hey Chuck, where's the best place around here to find some strange? Chuck: I'm not the [cassa] nova you think I am, but The [Gin Mill] is always [crawling with] strange. Shall we? ❋ Fletchlives (2005)

[My girlfriend] keeps [blue balling] me so I [got some] strange last night. ❋ Susan Anthony (2011)

[We out here] with the [strangeness] ❋ Lil Rugrat (2019)

Dude, I got stranged [with that] girl from [the club] [last night]. ❋ MakingupwordsiswhatIdo (2011)

[No one] will [have sex] with [eric] because he is such a strang. ❋ Knot Important (2006)

Friend: damn [Taylor's] [strange] is wide Me: yeah it's been [tamed] too much times ❋ Abc124 (2014)

Lately I've passed up a couple opportunities to get [some strange]. Thats so unlike me. or That [hottie] at the bar keeps looking at me so I'm [going over] to get me some strange. ❋ Dave Davis The Third (2009)