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• s  characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions
  a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys

• Both manifest Pynchon's trademark narrative rhythm, repeated segues from cartoonish pratfalls into surreal episodes of phantasmagoric dread, punctuated by periodic eruptions of .
• Because its phantasmagoric satire of mid- century life in Harlem and the American South proved prophetic, the book became a blueprint for inner-city discontent.
• But the strategic fire soon became a phantasmagoric inferno.

• phantasmagorical
• surreal
• surrealistic

News & Articles

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• 'This Week's Rent' in the Provincetown Banner
  Released July 30: “The Devil’s Backbone.” The Mexican virtuoso Guillermo del Toro has directed stylish comic-book-action fare in Hollywood (“Hellboy,” “Pacific Rim”) and phantasmagoric art-house thrillers in Spain, such as “Pan’s Labyrinth” and this 2001 film, now being introduced in Blu-ray (and re-released on DVD) in a Criterion Collection edition filled with extras. ...
  Aug. 13, 2013 - Provincetown Banner

Quotes

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• Jean Paul Gaultier in OhmyNews International
  There are things to be challenged and it's always interested me to do that,Gaultier told The Associated Press after the show. "What I show is never a phantasmagoric personal fantasy. It's always because I feel that there are boys who are...
• Jana Hybášková in Jerusalem Post
  The idea that the government has somehow fulfilled the EU's demands is phantasmagoric,said Jana Hybaskova, a Czech European lawmaker of the European People's Party and European Democrats, the parliament's largest political group.