A lot of it is available at soundcloud.com/justsza, which draws a broad sample from the cool present: menacing trap beats, ambient echoes, blurry atmospheres, pleasure-pain dichotomies.
Feminists tend to perceive such women either as idealized representatives of Edenic cultural purity or as mute victims of that vague yet ever-present menace, "the patriarchy".
Infection, despite first antisepsis (destruction of microorganisms present) and later asepsis (avoidance of contamination), is still an ever-present menace; and shock continues to perplex physicians.
Keret appears to acknowledge the temptation to see his characters' predicaments — their emotional flip-outs, the wild distortions of everyday reality — as a reaction to this ever-present menace, but it's a temptation these stories somehow invert.
The lack of a regional security organisation, the absence of a hotline between Beijing and Tokyo, and the ever-present menace represented by the nuclear-armed, Chinese-backed regime in North Korea all add to the inherent dangers of the current situation.
At worst it is itself a menace, a clear and present threat to reason.
Throughout the 4th century and especially in its latter half, the ever-present German menace as well as internecine strife occasionally caused the Rhine frontier to be broken, but it was always vigorously restored.
(An interesting exception to the rule was Julian, who, with Trier rendered inhospitable by war, wintered in Paris, giving that city its first taste of future greatness.) Throughout the 4th century and especially in its latter half, the ever-present German menace as well as internecine strife occasionally caused the Rhine frontier to be broken, but it was always vigorously restored.
