When I moved away from Niagara, however, the familiar began to seem much more strange.
Even today the idea seems rather absurd, so how much more strange must it have seemed 30 years ago when Ausaf Abbas, Azhar Rana, Pervez Bilgrami and "token white" Huw Jones decided to form Alien Kulture.
To go from someone obsessed with numbers to something so much freer and so much more strange and magical.
Graphic novels don't come much more gorgeously strange and stylish than this.
At best, they will be inspired to journey across the river to Manhattan to explore a more expansive landscape of museums and galleries and see how much more exciting, strange and consciousness-altering contemporary art can be.
"Do these guys know we're chasing them?" Emerson's chilly response: "What does that matter?" The show derives much of its momentum from the interplay between these characters, Rebecca trying to drag details out of Emerson, who clearly knows much more about the strange goings-on in 1963 than he is sharing.
To me this sums up much more effectively the strange fear children can evoke in adults, that inability of grown-ups to fully understand their behaviour, that loss of authority and control over them that parents must gradually learn to accept.
Booth stated that their film was "much more irreverent and strange" compared to other behind-the-scenes documentaries of the film trilogy, which were "very much driven around the production and the cast and Tolkien".
As soon as a second or third color is visible in the surroundings, the reflections in the glass will look much more distracting and strange.
On the other hand, Joke van Leeuwen's delightful Eep shows a much more hopeful delight in strange and wonderful things and carries a message about selfless love, albeit in an undidactic way.
It is partly this material that makes Mr Coover's legendary West seem so much more familiar than the strange historical West of Kleberg, Brigham Young and Junipero Serra: a drifting kid comes upon a ghostly town in the baking hot badlands of someplace in the West, Nevada perhaps, or Arizona.
