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  • Music Writer and Editor, Goings On About Town, The New Yorker
  • Editor, NPR Music, NPR
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An art-rock illusionist rewrites pop in her own image

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By Sheldon Pearce Verified
| WUOM-FM (Ann Arbor, MI) Verified
In the 17th century, sailors of the Dutch East India Trading Company recounted seeing a ghostly ship appear beyond the horizon, seeming to float in mid-air. The Flying Dutchman is just one such seabound vision; history holds accounts of entire fairy castles materializing on the distant waves. Reactions to this "Fata Morgana," the light-bending optical illusion most commonly offered to explain such tales, can tell us a lot about point of view.
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An art-rock illusionist rewrites pop in her own image

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By Sheldon Pearce Verified
| WRKF-FM (Baton Rouge, LA) Verified
In the 17th century, sailors of the Dutch East India Trading Company recounted seeing a ghostly ship appear beyond the horizon, seeming to float in mid-air. The Flying Dutchman is just one such seabound vision; history holds accounts of entire fairy castles materializing on the distant waves. Reactions to this "Fata Morgana," the light-bending optical illusion most commonly offered to explain such tales, can tell us a lot about point of view.
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An art-rock illusionist rewrites pop in her own image

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By Sheldon Pearce Verified
| WQLN (Erie, PA) Verified
In the 17th century, sailors of the Dutch East India Trading Company recounted seeing a ghostly ship appear beyond the horizon, seeming to float in mid-air. The Flying Dutchman is just one such seabound vision; history holds accounts of entire fairy castles materializing on the distant waves. Reactions to this "Fata Morgana," the light-bending optical illusion most commonly offered to explain such tales, can tell us a lot about point of view.
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