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His collection Antiworld gave rise to a famous performance at the Taganka theatre, Moscow, in 1965.

Each is the other's antiworld: Japan an exclusive, homogeneous Asian ocean-and-island realm, tribal, intricately compact, suppressive, fiercely focused; and the U.S. a giant of huge distances, expansive, messy, inclusive, wasteful, rich, individualist, multicultural, chaotically diverse.

California, he was implying, is the name we give our hopes and highest fantasies: an antiworld of sorts, governed by an antireality principle and driven by an antigravitational push.

Curfew again: Nablus returns to its motionless antiworld, its un-Palestine.

Of course, that sort of hypothesis is merely a fantastic antiworld.