Like people who play house and shit you're creating alternative realms to cope with where you are".
Like people who play house and shit — you're creating alternative realms to cope with where you are".
Instead, they offered alternative realms of sound, the one a dreamlike mass of complex sonorities and the other a kinetic swirl of repeating patterns.
Two new dystopian novels not only explore such alternative realms and the societies that populate them, but also probe the smaller worlds of human bodies and the souls that inhabit them.
At such moments, the fabric of the physical world parts like a curtain, revealing figures from a shadowy alternative realm.
"We're always on the lookout for something new and tasty that's in the alternative realm," Ms. Allen said.
Other years, holiday shopping can transport me, if only for a few hours, to an alternative realm where the right gift might be enough to make someone smile.
A mysterious mobile phone in a courier package, some menacing guys wearing sunglasses indoors and discovering an alternative realm of reality – just a standard day in the office for Keanu Reeves's Neo, then.
He was talking about the alternative realm into which his protagonist disappears in order to avoid the harsh realities of fascist Spain, but he could have been talking about his own Bleak House, a Westlake Village residence crammed full of mementoes, toys, illustrations, models, literature and art, all centered on the macabre.
Shot through with post-dotcom sobriety, Me++ describes the move from virtual reality - the old 90s idea of the net as a separate, alternative realm - to "augmented reality" (AR), in which ubiquitous computing and mobile wireless networks are used to reconnect us to the real world.
The cut would include the entirety of a very special episode, titled "The Head Push," addressing the issue of consent, and it would include much of an episode, titled "The Pornscape," wherein Maurice and Nick venture into an alternative realm, as if heading up the Congo to find Kurtz, to rescue a depressed Andrew from a draining smut habit.
