- Index
Afropessimism, 152–53
alcohol
as a means of bonding, 117
boredom with, 123
in excess, 29, 133
ambition
death of, 123–25
American exceptionalism, 76–77
American South
defense of, 143
reckoning with, 110–11, 140–41
beekeepers, Macedonian, 162
Blackness
Anti-, 76–80, 152–55
white obsession with, 152
borders
questioning the validity of, 14–15
redrawn, 105
Buenos Aires, 9, 42–43, 45
cannibalism
unfounded rumors of, 114
carcass, crocodile, 24
catbird, 33
Central Park Five, 77
Chengdu, China, 19
coronavirus, 19, 47, 61, 80, 101
diaspora, 25, 107
digital repository, 22
dishonesty
familial, 126–34
governmental, 45–47, 49
documentary filmmaking
as giant bummer, 164
as resistance to injustice, 164
golden age of, 164
Don Quixote
abstinence from, 124
emotion
as vector of understanding, 100, 156, 166
exodus, 22
flowers
minivan full of, 88
possibly plastic, 34
forgery, 10–15
freedom,
as natural condition, 170
as illusion, 170
individual, 19
Geneva Convention, 39
gold, bars of, 24
grammar
rebellion against, 89
grieving, 88–91, 94–111
as expressed through Super
Mario World, 158
Heathrow Airport, 112–21
heritage, 22–25, 145–50
hermaphrodite cardinal, 32
hummingbirds
unleashed flock of, 89
independence, 35, 52, 61
inferiority, 123
inflation
Argentinian, 42–47
inheritance,76–83,84
kali, 85
Kentucky Derby, 140
kissing
as a prompt for more kissing, 155
Liberia, 145–50
Lumière, 162
McDonald’s, 141
as a last meal, of sorts, 160
memories,
crowdsourced, 22–25
migrants, 13, 53
misinformation, 48–51, 125
Muslims, 22, 24, 94–111
nationalism, 27–33, 76–83, 94–111
nematodes
as science experiment, 154
destroyed, gratuitously and randomly, 154
New Deal, 164
nuns, 42–43
Obamas, the, 163, 165
Odyssey, The, 137–38, 159
Oscars, the, 99, 162–63
pomegranate
as a uterine growth, 158
“Post-truth era,” 163–64
pride
Black, 36
privacy
violation of, 112–21
reconciliation, 145–50
reincarnation
butterfly, 150
Riefenstahl, Leni, 164–65
saliva, 37
Scotch-Irish, 148
sexism, 82, 114–15, 154
shipwreck
as metaphor for 2020, 29–33
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 140
Sikhs, 22, 24
slavery, 145–50
architectural reminders of, 110–11
database, 12
social mobility, 114–16, 146
“Song of Myself,” 156
Sri Lanka, 25, 38
superhero, 129
Tahrir Square, 57, 61, 63–65, 72–75
taxonomy
of face masks during a global
pandemic, 18–19
tears, 133
timelessness, 85, 107
truth
ineluctable, 163–66
nature of, 42–47
United Nations, 102, 105, 166
vandalism
badass, 99
vérité,162
violin, 122
vlogs, 162
waiting room, 126
will of God
as ship propellant, 28
wine, 113, 117–18, 123, 125, 128
Works Progress Administration
(WPA), 164
zoning boards, 101, 105 [End Page 167]