It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

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.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

The rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

In those days poems often told a story in verse and those boys had some corkers to tell ; ;

But at the coroner's inquest Delphine told a forthright story.

He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.

The Hetman told me to take the story over the phone and to write it.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

Right now, however, he was still too worried about Jerry Burton, and the gun that had no bullets, and the story Burton had told him, to care too much about Tony Calenda.

The story of a quarter of a century of Soviet-Western relations is vitally important, and it is told with the fire of a first-rate historical narrator.

If she'd kept on as she'd been going, the story I'd told Gladdy would probably have been true by now, anyhow

But his mother told the story over and over, till her `` Martin said he was sorry '' was as much a part of her as the shape of her thin, pallid ears.

The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes.

Using what became one of van Vogt's recurring themes, it told the story of a 9-year-old superman living in a world in which his kind are slain by Homo sapiens.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

This story is told through the character Rieux.

A story similar in character, and obviously older in date, is the one alluded to in 2 Maccabees 1: 18 et seq according to which the relighting of the altar fire by Nehemiah was due to a miracle which occurred on the 25th of Kislev, and which appears to be given as the reason for the selection of the same date for the rededication of the altar by Judah Maccabee.

The story of this otherwise unknown Poppo or Poppa's miracle and baptism of Harald is also depicted on the gilded altar piece in the Church of Tandrup in Denmark, a detail of which is at the top of this article.

Because saints ' lives are often included many miracle stories, " legend " in a wider sense came to refer to any story that is set in a historical context but that contains supernatural or fantastic elements.

There is also a second miracle story, thought to have occurred in 1422, whereby hosts turned into blood.

" Similarly, the Rebbe Mordechai of Neshkiz explains, " Even if a story about him never actually occurred, and there was no such miracle, it was in the power of the Baal Shem Tov, may his memory be a blessing for the life of the World-to-Come, to perform everything.

Persian Exile throughout the Purim story, and since hides behind alludes to hidden aspect of the miracle of Purim which was " disguised " by natural events.

Morels have been called by many local names ; some of the more colorful include dryland fish, because when sliced lengthwise then breaded and fried, their outline resembles the shape of a fish ; hickory chickens, as they are known in many parts of Kentucky ; and merkels or miracles, based on a story of how a mountain family was saved from starvation by eating morels ( the spelling of the word " merkel " reflects the pronunciation of the word " miracle " in the Appalachian dialect common to the south ).

The oil for cooking the latkes is symbolic of the oil from the Hanukkah story that kept the Second Temple of ancient Israel lit with a long-lasting flame that is celebrated as a miracle.

The bishop was summoned to interview the sleepers ; they told him their miracle story, and died praising God.

Texts that tell ( and gradually elaborate ) the story of the finding of the True Cross and its identification through a miracle date to the fifth century, and include writings by Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen and Saint Theodoret.

The term is also found in various writing styles such as parable, beatitude, prayer, miracle story and aphorism.

For example, according to popular legend, after promoting a miracle weight-loss aid called " Dr. Quack's Slim Jim Reducing Pills " with the story of an obese woman who got stuck in a telephone booth, Gentile and Binge received over $ 3, 000 from listeners requesting a $ 1 trial of the pills as advertised, and the station had to hire a clerk to return the money .< ref >

A painting with nine panels telling the story of the miracle.

Ornithologists don't regard this as particularly unusual because the seagulls around the Great Salt Lake often eat insects in the adjacent valleys, but some pioneers saw the gulls ' arrival as a miracle, and the story was recounted from the pulpit by church leaders such as Orson Pratt and George A. Smith.

While not part of any specific religious rite in Judaism, blintzes that are stuffed with a cheese filling and then fried in oil are served on holidays such as Chanukah ( as oil played a pivotal role in the miracle of the Chanukah story ) and Shavuot ( when dairy dishes are traditionally served within the Ashkenazi minhag ).

He did not hesitate to identify Helier with the near namesake in Tongres, or to make an identification with Eletus, taking the story of a miracle set on an island whose place-name was not to be found on the map.

" The story exerted its influence even in the absence of Jews ... the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries saw the proliferation of the Host-desecration story in England: in collections of miracle stories, many of them dedicated to the miracles of the Virgin Mary ; in the art of illuminated manuscripts used for Christian prayer and meditation ; and on stage, as in popular Croxton Play of the Sacrament, which itself evoked memories of an alleged ritual murder committed by Jews in East Anglia in 1191.

When his father visits in the story " Birth of a Salesman ", set three years after Freddie's marriage, Emsworth finds that " in those three years some miracle had transformed from a vapid young London lizard into a go-getter, a live wire and a man who thought on his feet and did it now.

Linda, who suffered a broken arm, was quickly dubbed the " miracle girl " by the news media as the story of her survival and the circumstances spread.

The miracle in the story demonstrates graphically that salvation was possible for such persons.

The fourth story, told by Hordjedef, concerns a miracle set within Khufu's own reign.

The story of Theophilus formed the basis of a thirteenth century miracle play by the trouvère Rutebeuf, Le Miracle de Théophile, one of the earliest pieces of French theatre extant.

A variant of this theme can also be seen in the story of Pinocchio, in which a wooden puppet is transformed into a real boy, though in this case the puppet possesses sentience prior to its transformation ; it is the puppet and not its creator, the woodcarver Mister Geppetto, who beseeches the miracle.