In connection with Deckard's mission, the novel explores the issue of what it is to be human.

That Gaff is leaving origami unicorns at Deckard's house, implies that Gaff is aware of the content of Deckard's unicorn dream.

This is a notion emphasized by Rachael's fabricated memories, Deckard's need to confirm a replicant based on more than appearance, and even the printout of Leon's photograph not matching the reality of the Esper visual.

Gaff's Origami unicorn from the Director's Cut, perhaps indicating that Deckard's unicorn daydream was an implant and that Deckard is a replicant.

There is a sequence added in the Director's Cut version ( that was not in the original theatrical release ) where Deckard dreams about a unicorn, and at the end of film finds an origami unicorn that Gaff leaves in Deckard's apartment, possibly suggesting to the viewer ( and to Deckard ) that Gaff knows about Deckard's dream in the same manner that Deckard knows about Rachael's implanted memories.

* the fact that Deckard's apartment is full of photographs, none of them recent or in color.

This ties in with Deckard's comment about Dr. Tyrell's artificial owl: " It must be expensive.

Some film critics believe Roy saved Deckard's life so that Deckard would continue to live with knowledge of Roy's experience — being about to die.

* The apartment scene with Rachael and Deckard ( after Rachael saves his life by shooting Leon ) shows a red tint to Rachel's eyes and as Deckard comes up behind her, the same red tint can be briefly seen in Deckard's eyes.

The dream may not be uniquely Deckard's, as the unicorn does appear in J. F.

After shooting the exterior scene on location for Blade Runner the interior of Deckard's apartment was created at Warner Brothers.

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.

The narrative is interwoven with a love story and an examination of women's struggles to enlarge their roles and achieve some independence within the social climate of 1930s England, and the novel has been described as " the first feminist mystery novel.

His idea of a perfect science fiction story was " 75 percent literature interwoven with 25 percent science ".

After the first couple of seasons all three shows changed their story format to that of a pure soap opera with interwoven ongoing narratives that ran over several episodes.

It is a compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography and the other stating words having to do with the images, the story the first voice is relating, or neither.

The Lao version was interwoven with the Lao creation myth and is also, mistakenly, though of as a Jataka story so is held in high esteem.

The film features nearly all the show's regular cast from that time and the story of the film features various interwoven story threads that occupy the characters to varying degrees.

Zao Jun's story is interwoven with a feminist spin into the protagonist's story in Amy Tan's novel The Kitchen God's Wife.

The ferry's name may or may not be relevant to the story, which has many interwoven strands.

The main plot is interwoven with a story Malkah tells Yod that deals with Rabbi Judah Loew who Malkah depicts as her ancestor living in the ghetto of Prague around 1600.

Macroscope's story is interwoven by many themes taken from a variety of sources.

The Turks are portrayed as human beings and a love story between Deliman the Tatar and the Sultan's daughter Cumilla is interwoven into the main plot.

All types of characters, from high nobility, admirals and politicians, to common soldiers and farmers, are interwoven into the story.

The edifying story of a young Sotho chieftain's conversion to Christianity, it is cleverly interwoven with traditional myths and praise poems.

interwoven a story which, when we consider its date, may be described as positively exciting and romantic.

Maupin's next novel in the series, Mary Ann in Autumn, returned to the style of the earlier Tales books, a multi-character tapestry of interwoven story lines.

Comedic moments punctuated by unexpected guests, the repeated returns of the jealous Ippolit, the buzzing of the doorbell, and the ringing of the phone are interwoven with the slowly developing love story.

* The second is the interwoven story of Sergeant Major Plunkett and his Irish wife Maud, who live on the island and must reconcile themselves to the history of British colonization of St. Lucia.

The story of the 17th century Mohawk saint Kateri Tekakwitha is interwoven with the story of a love triangle between an unnamed anglophone Canadian folklorist ; his Native wife, Edith, who has committed suicide ; and his best friend, the mystical F, a member of Parliament and leader in the Quebec separatist movement, who dies after being imprisoned in an institute for the criminally insane.

Their story of courage and survival is interwoven with the tale of their Tibetan hosts ' struggle to survive Chinese occupation in the IPPY ( Independent Publisher ) award-winning non-fiction book, Yak Butter Blues: A Tibetan Trek of Faith, published by Pilgrim's Tales in 2004.

Through a series of flashbacks interwoven though the story, the tale of the betrayal, attempted murder, and humiliation of the ( then-rookie ) pair by the increasingly psychotic superagent Shasti is told.

Game Revolution thought that while the game's premise itself was simply a rehash of previous titles, " the story that unfolds as you actually play the game is flawlessly interwoven and quite entertaining ".