Dyer County, Tennessee Dyer County Courthouse in Dyersburg, Tennessee Location in the state of Tennessee Tennessee's location in the U. S. Founded 1823 Seat Dyersburg Largest city Area - Total - Land - Water 526 sq mi (1, 364 km²) 510 sq mi (1, 322 km²) 16 sq mi (41 km²), 3. 04% Population - ( 2010) - Density 38, 335 73/sq mi (28/km²) Time zone Central: UTC-6 / -5 Dyer County is a county located in the westmost part of the U. S. state of Tennessee. As of 2010, the population was 38, 335. Its county seat is Dyersburg. [ 1] Geography According to the U. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 526 square miles (1, 362. 3 km 2), of which 510 square miles (1, 320. 9 km 2) is land and 16 square miles (41. 4 km 2) (3. 04%) is water. The county is bounded on the west by the Mississippi River, and it is drained by the Mississippi River. It is in the part of Tennessee called the "Mississippi bottomland". Dyer County is bisected by U. Route 51, the older major highway connecting Memphis with Chicago from south to north.
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But rather than this leading to a horrible transformation which is revealed, reviled and resisted over the course of the film, from the first frames of The Host we are in a future where the takeover is already almost complete. And where Earth seems all the better for it. This makes it a neat variant both on invading life forms who want to eat us, or enslave us or just eliminate us, and on the cuddly ETs who just want to be our friends. Here the alien parasites, known as souls, have made the world a more joyous and harmonious place through the simple expedient of replacing our own natures with theirs, which by contrast are "compassionate, patient, honest, virtuous and full of love". Wonderful, serene and wise as these souls (mostly) are, they only prosper by suppressing or snuffing out all those facets and flaws which makes each of us human. It's smiley genocide. Mind benders If the idea of our species being enhanced by parasitic "souls" is ringing a distant bell, it might be that you're reminded of Brian Aldiss' 1962 novel Hothouse in which sentient fungi called morels boost our intelligence by attaching themselves to our heads.