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Finally, the theatrical ( and perversely erotic ) notions of dressing up, cosmetics, disguise, and especially change of costume ( or singularity of costume, as with Cipolla ), are characteristically associated with the catastrophes of Mann's stories.
that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.
In a certain perfectly definite way, the method and the theme of his stories are one and the same.
There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.
The ingredients of Faulkner's novels and stories are by no means new with him, and most of the problems he takes up have had the attention of authors before him.
And they have done this on a very large scale, with a veritable flood of novels and stories which are either dystopias or narratives of adventure with dystopian elements.
The novels and stories like Pohl's Drunkard's Walk ( 1960 ), with the focus on adventure and with the dystopian elements only a dim background -- in this case an uneasy, overpopulated world in which the mass of people do uninteresting routine jobs while a carefully selected, university-trained elite runs everything -- are in all likelihood as numerous as dystopias.
Will it be short stories, fiction, nonfiction, biography, poetry, children's stories, or even a book if you are really ambitious??
In support of this, stories from the early literature are cited to show that Zen attacks the idea of supernatural power.
Mr. Sansom is English, bearded, formidably cultivated, the versatile author of numerous volumes of short stories, of novels and of pieces that are neither short stories nor travel articles but something midway between.
Adobe walls usually never rise above two stories because they are load bearing and have low structural strength.
Some of the oldest and most widespread stories in the world are stories of adventure such as Homer's The Odyssey.
His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!
Christie's stories are also known for their taut atmosphere and strong psychological suspense, developed from the deliberately slow pace of her prose.
Seven stories are inspired by a nursery rhyme: And Then There Were None by Ten Little Indians ; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by One, Two, Buckle My Shoe ; Five Little Pigs by This Little Piggy ; Crooked House by There Was a Crooked Man ; A Pocket Full of Rye by Sing a Song of Sixpence ; Hickory Dickory Dock by Hickory Dickory Dock, and Three Blind Mice by Three Blind Mice.
In six stories, Christie allows the murderer to escape justice ( and in the case of the last three, implicitly almost approves of their crimes ); these are The Witness for the Prosecution, Five Little Pigs, The Man in the Brown Suit, Murder on the Orient Express, Curtain and The Unexpected Guest.
The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).
Rabbi Trugman explains that it is through oral tradition that the meanings of the Torah, its commandments and stories, are known and understood.
Alternate history or alternative history is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world.
All surviving stories of Agrippina's death contradict themselves and each other, and are generally fantastical.
There are stories that it would take 10 men to carry his sword, and that Afonso would want to engage other monarchs in personal combat, but no one would dare accept his challenge.
Many of the stories have them travel to foreign countries, though others are set in and around their village.

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From the Ancient Greeks and Romans to Napoleon's France and Elizabethan England, much of history is filled with stories of entertainment based on games of chance.
For years, Cordwainer Smith had a pocket notebook which he had filled with ideas about The Instrumentality and additional stories in the series.
Even though Ralph 124C 41 + is one of the most influential science fiction stories of all time, and filled with numerous science fiction ideas, few people still read the story.
Over the following years she filled countless notebooks with stories, poems, comics and illustrations, often hand-binding the material with thread.
After his call-up, but before being sent abroad, he and fellow musician Harry Edgington ( nicknamed Edge-ying-Tong which gave birth to one of Milligan's most memorable musical creations, the Ying Tong Song ) would compose surreal stories, filled with puns and skewed logic, as a way of staving off the boredom of life in barracks.
The stories of Flanders fields filled Hughes ' childhood imagination ( later described in the poem " Out ").
Kurt Schwitters established his own solitary one-man Dada " group " in Hanover, where he filled two stories of a house ( the Merzbau ) with sculptures cobbled together with found objects and ephemera, each room dedicated to a notable artist friend of Schwitter's.
Crime stories filled many of the pages, with headlines like " Was He a Suicide?
Thus Andrew Lloyd Webber created two popular musicals, Jesus Christ Superstar and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which filled traditional biblical stories with modern-day sensibilities ; and on a similar note, Catherine Hardwicke's The Nativity Story shows a field of maize-corn in a Nazareth farming scene.
The history of this region is filled with stories of the early Midwestern Settlers from Kansas, Illinois and Iowa to the French Canadians ( Cajuns ) to Jean Lafitte's pirates along the Old Spanish Trail.
Thomas Paine wrote in The Age of Reason that " whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God.
The stories are filled with affectionate irony.
The ranks of the Legion, only hinted at in those first two stories, were filled with new heroes, such as Chameleon Boy, Invisible Kid, Colossal Boy, Star Boy, Brainiac 5, Triplicate Girl, Shrinking Violet, Sun Boy, Bouncing Boy, Phantom Girl, and Ultra Boy.
Boston newspapers were filled with lists of the dead, and stories of narrow escapes and deaths.
The time in between information segments is normally filled with discussions of major news stories, reviews of the day's papers, and entertainment news — news regarding media celebrities.
In the days following the massacre, the British tabloid press was filled with stories about Ryan's life.
Under Cohen Amazing was filled almost entirely with reprinted stories.
The Tigers ' shark-faced fighters remain among the most recognizable of any individual combat aircraft of World War II, and they demonstrated innovative tactical victories when the news in the U. S. was filled with little more than stories of defeat at the hands of the Japanese forces.
There were even stories of bars in Cincinnati not serving alcohol to customers until they filled out a ballot.
The book is filled with charming memorable characters and personal stories that are captivating and incredible, yet told in a warm conversational style.
The king is said to have owned several mansions, one of which was sixty-six feet long, forty-two feet wide, contained seven rooms, was two stories high, and had a staircase ; with the walls and chambers filled with sculpture and painting.
He became enchanted with the sword, and was filled with stories of them slashing through their European counterparts.
Brooks gave a lecture at nearby De Anza College: the room was filled with Apple employees with copies of his book, who told him stories that confirmed his conclusions.
* the stories were filled with digressions into philosophy, the complete texts of official documents, and much more, making for very long books ;

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