In the course of initially academic but increasingly deranged annotations to Shade's text, Kinbote's writing reveals a comic melange of narcissism and megalomania: he believes himself to be a royal figure, the exiled king of Zembla and the real target of the gunman who has in fact murdered Shade.

In one interpretation, Kinbote is in fact a failed Eastern European academic probably named Vseslav Botkin, teaching at the same university as Shade.

Shade, feeling curiosity for the Spider's motives, discovered he was in fact a criminal, getting rid of the competition, and a Ludlow by birth.

Shade assists him in his efforts, partly influenced by the revelation O ' Dare is, in fact, the reincarnated lawman Scalphunter, an old friend.

The mere fact that the tall figure with the rifle and field glasses had been seen riding that way was enough to frighten three rustling homesteaders out of the Upper Laramie country in a single week.

The fact that Jess's horse had not been returned to its stall could indicate that Diane's information had been wrong, but Curt didn't interpret it this way.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Also, we should not even to-day discount the fact that a region such as the coastal lowlands centering on Charleston had closer ties with England and the West Indies than with the North even after independence.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.

Even earlier than that he had resented the fact that I had been chosen to edit the club's Reporter.

A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

Place-names, in fact, had been extensively utilized for this purpose from the time of Camden onwards.

It was Plummer, in fact, who coined the much quoted remark: `` Mr. Green indeed writes as if he had been present at the landing of the Saxons and had watched every step of their subsequent progress ''.

In fact, he had raised quetzal birds in his camp in the forest of Ecuador.

As a matter of fact, this happened every four or five months.

Yet, in spite of this, intensive study of the taped interviews by teams of psychotherapists and linguists laid bare the surprising fact that, in the first five minutes of an initial interview, the patient often reveals as many as a dozen times just what's wrong with him ; ;

This fact, together with annual GDP growth of above 5 %, has brought the government indebtedness to 22. 8 % of GDP in 2006 from 67. 3 % five years earlier.

The Board ( occasionally CSBD or the BoD for short ) also includes functions defined by a Deed of Trust written by Eddy ( one of several, in fact ) under which it consisted of four persons, though she later expanded the Board to five persons, thus in effect leaving one of its members out of Deed functions.

At 6: 30 pm EDT, Kennedy convened a meeting of the nine members of the National Security Council and five other key advisers, in a group he formally named the Executive Committee of the National Security Council ( EXCOMM ) after the fact on October 22 by the National Security Action Memorandum 196.

Many people at the time viewed horse-drawn transit as unnecessarily cruel, and the fact that a typical horse could work only four or five hours per day necessitated the maintenance of large stables of draft animals that had to be fed, housed, groomed, medicated and rested.

In fact the boy was destined for a career on the stage, where however he was to win only five victories, one of which was after his death.

Such an achievement was made all the more remarkable by the fact that he was only five months and eight games into his international career, and was not considered his country's premier centre forward.

Adding another of any of these particles would require angular momentum and would release substantially less energy ( in fact, no nucleus with five nucleons is stable ).

When the churchyard of St. George's was redeveloped in the 1960s, his skull was disinterred ( in a manner befitting somebody who chose for himself the nickname of " Yorick "), partly identified by the fact that it was the only skull of the five in Sterne's grave that bore evidence of having been anatomised, and transferred to Coxwold Churchyard in 1969.

In fact, M ' Naghten fired a pistol at the back of Peel's secretary, Edward Drummond, who died five days later.

Most of the first five series of One Foot in the Grave were produced and directed by Susan Belbin, the exceptions being " Love and Death ," which was partly directed by veteran sitcom director Sydney Lotterby, and " Starbound ," for which Gareth Gwenlan ( who in fact had originally commissioned the series in 1989 ) stepped in to direct some sequences after Belbin was taken ill. Belbin retired due to ill health afterwards, and the final series was produced by Jonathan P. Llewellyn and directed by Christine Gernon.

Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays, if he was born on a leap day.

The five presbyteries are " non-geographical " only in that they overlay other pre-existing English-speaking geographical presbyteries ; they are in fact " geographical " in that they are geographically limited to the boundaries of a particular synod.

In fact, the country's economy had created more than half of all the new jobs in the European Union over the five years ending 2005.

A lengthy shaggy dog story derives its humour from the fact that the joke-teller held the attention of the listeners for a long time ( such jokes can take five minutes or more to tell ) for no reason at all, as the story ends with a meaningless anticlimax.

This fact certainly contributed to the inclusion of five shooting events in the 1896 Olympics.

Pex's tiling is notable for the fact that half of the pentagons each connect to seven adjacent neighbors, while the other half each connect to only to five neighbors.

" None of the five zookeepers who took part in the discipline technique were charged, due to a lack of conclusive evidence and the fact that at the time these training techniques were accepted by the animal training community.

In fact, he shot down only four aircraft ; the definition of " ace " is five or more victories.

In response to public suggestions by some advocates of firearms for home defense, that homeowners were at high risk of injury from home invasions and would be wise to acquire a firearm for purposes of protection, Kellermann investigated the circumstances surrounding all in-home homicides in three cities of about half a million population each over five years, and found that the risk of a homicide was in fact slightly higher in homes where a handgun was present, rather than lower.

The absurdity is in society's creating a justice system to give meaning to his action via capital punishment: " The fact that the death sentence had been read at eight o ' clock at night and not at five o ' clock.

Simple groups have been studied at least since early Galois theory, where Évariste Galois realized that the fact that the alternating groups on five or more points was simple ( and hence not solvable ), which he proved in 1831, was the reason that one could not solve the quintic in radicals.

In fact, the only character to appear as a regular during all five seasons was FBI Agent Ronald Sandoval ( Von Flores ), the show's main antagonist.

Despite this early dichotomy, recent evidence in both animals and plants has suggested that there are more than two distinct heterochromatin states, and it may in fact exist in four or five ' states ', each marked by different combinations epigenetic marks.