Does he have a secret office in an alternative zone of reality where the clocks run backwards?
It tells of a plugged-in, tuned-out Internet culture "lost in the misty zone between reality and imagery, no longer able to tell the difference".
Ms. Bachleda put it nicely: "He's able to create a world that doesn't really exist, but is as possible as it is impossible — some twilight zone between reality and fairy tale".
PAGE D1 Arts A YOUNG MAN ENTRAPPED IN A HOST OF WEBS "Lost Memory of Skin," a new novel by Russell Banks, tells of a plugged-in, tuned-out Internet culture "lost in the misty zone between reality and imagery, no longer able to tell the difference".
And yet Mr. Kon's themes are fully present: the transvestite, too, is a performer, inhabiting the zone between reality and fantasy; the alcoholic is haunted by his past as a champion bicycle racer; and the runaway, like the main character of "Perfect Blue," is caught between childhood and adulthood.
Astrid Kruse Jensen (born 1975, educated in the Netherlands and Scotland) specializes in photographs taken at night which evoke the zone between reality and imagination.
All of this palaver is designed to distract you from the fact that you're passing through a permeable membrane into a different zone of reality; an altered state.
The word "blog" is now irrevocably linked with our faces, glued to our skin, associated with our actions, tied to popular concerns, and synonymous with that prohibited zone of reality that is becoming more and more magnetic, more and more admired.
We inhabited four zones of reality, the first three being the American version, the Saigon version and the Hanoi version.
The narrator is half-Thai and half-American, and his life in two different zones of reality anchors one of the strongest debuts of the decade.
