He saw a phantasmagoria of shadowy creatures through the fog.

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Saving not just time but effort is key to forward momentum in the industrial phantasmagoria that is, at this moment, blasting circus music into my ears. Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "The Shopper’s Dream of an Optimized Life," 10 Aug. 2020

Saving not just time but effort is key to forward momentum in the industrial phantasmagoria that is, at this moment, blasting circus music into my ears. Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "The Shopper’s Dream of an Optimized Life," 10 Aug. 2020

Saving not just time but effort is key to forward momentum in the industrial phantasmagoria that is, at this moment, blasting circus music into my ears. Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "The Shopper’s Dream of an Optimized Life," 10 Aug. 2020

Saving not just time but effort is key to forward momentum in the industrial phantasmagoria that is, at this moment, blasting circus music into my ears. Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, "The Shopper’s Dream of an Optimized Life," 28 Apr. 2020

Their endings are inscribed on their lives, making the city a kind of phantasmagoria filled with the living dead. Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: A Headlong City Symphony," 24 Jan. 2020

Onetti’s style, which can create such lovely scenes of phantasmagoria, can be obscure in other ways. Edmund White, Harper's magazine, "Existential Noir," 6 Jan. 2020

Climax This mind-melting phantasmagoria from Gaspar Noé tracks the mental deterioration of a dance troupe whose communal bowl of sangria gets spiked with acid at a post-rehearsal party. Clark Collis, EW.com, "The 10 best horror films of 2019," 23 Dec. 2019

The film becomes a kind of phantasmagoria as you are left wondering what’s real, what’s imagined and whether or not that even matters. Lindsey Bahr, Detroit Free Press, "Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe shine in ‘The Lighthouse’," 25 Oct. 2019

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