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In the novel, we are told that Ford's original name is " only pronounceable in an obscure Betelgeusian dialect " which was almost wiped out by the " Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Gal ./ Sid ./ Year 03758 ," a mysterious catastrophe which took place on the planet of Betelgeuse Seven and which Ford's father was the only man to survive.
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If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
In our own time we have seen that the novelist's debt to psychoanalysis has increased but that the novel itself has not profited much from this marriage.
If we are to believe the list of titles printed in Malraux's latest book, La Metamorphose Des Dieux, Vol. 1 ( ( 1957 ), he is still engaged in writing a large novel under his original title.
* William Hope Hodgson's 1912 novel The Night Land features the first example of what we now would call an arcology, though the future Earthlings depicted — millions of years into the future, in fact — have different reasons for building their metallic pyramid.
Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented ' history ' as we know it.
In 1994, scholar Brian Stonehill suggested that Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow " not only curses but precurses what we now glibly dub cyberspace.
" A novel in which the theme rests heavily on familiarity with the American continent, it's interesting that Kerouac labels the region as " a manuscript of the night we couldn't read.
Tasks such as reading, for instance, require to maintain in memory much more than seven chunks-with a capacity of only seven chunks our working memory would be full after a few sentences, and we would never be able to understand the complex relations between thoughts expressed in a novel or a scientific text.
Early in the novel we learn that he worked for Military Intelligence for three years before joining his present agency – WOOC ( P ) – as a civilian employee.
" Despite " unlike coincidence and occasional melodrama " in the plotting, Williamson concluded that " the novel is a fine juvenile reflects hopes and fears we all have known.
* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.
Herodotus's approach was entirely novel, and at least in Western society, he does seem to have invented ' history ' as we know it.
In A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, the heroine / feminist scholar, while recognising that '" we live in the truth of what Freud discovered "', concedes that '" the whole of our scholarship-the whole of our thought-we question everything except the centrality of sexuality "'.
The novel raises the question as to whether Hindustan ( consisting of Hindu Indians ) is a fourth Great Phyle, or a " riotously diverse collection of microtribes sintered together according to some formula we don't get.
Towards the end of the novel, he is last seen in Mr. Creakle ’ s prison where we find that he has returned to his " umble " ways, and puts himself forward as a model prisoner.
Critic Adam Roberts said of the novel: “ It is really quite hard to respond to this masterful book, except by engaging with its political content ; and yet we need to make the effort to see past the ideological to the formal and thematic if we are fully to appreciate the splendour of Heinlein's achievement here .”
" It was in response to Linda's loss that we chose Tears ," he told the Phoenix, " because Flow My Tears is in fact a novel about grief, and not necessarily just about loss of identity.
There is a reference back to the events of Asimov's novel Pebble in the Sky: we learn that the restoration of Earth's soil was indeed attempted but was abandoned.
* Martha Endell – A young woman, once Little Emily's friend, who later gains a bad reputation ( we suppose she incurs in some sexually inappropriate behaviour and is thus disgraced ), who, in the later chapters of the novel helps Daniel Peggotty find his niece after she returns to London.
In the novel we are introduced to Rivers as a doctor for whom healing patients comes at price.
In this novel the reader also learns of Rivers's visit to Melenasia ; feverish with Spanish Flu, the doctor is able to recount the expedition and we are provided with insight both into the culture of the island and into Rivers's very different " field trip persona ".
In this novel, for example, we meet the supposedly obdurate Afrikaner who contravenes the infamous Immorality Act.
James Sallis praised Lust Lizard, saying that Moore's novel provides " all the best comic writing, something beyond jokes, caricature, spinning plates and crazy-tilt towers, something intangible that vanishes whenever we try to look directly at it: some sense, perhaps, that we're still able to rescue from the ever-increasing detritus of our culture a decent, simple humanity.
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However, in the context of legal and civic policy, these controversies are less than novel.
The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.
Of straight dramas, there are All The Way Home, which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel, A Death In The Family ; ;
Nevertheless, there are notably frequent instances of deja vue, in which our recognition of an entirely novel event is a feeling of having lived through it before, a feeling which, though vague, withstands the verbal barrage from the most impressive corps of psychologists.
Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.
In France, novel approaches to the classic French plays are frequently attempted.
Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).
In the novel, they are represented by Cottard, who welcomes the plague and uses the economic deprivation that results from it to make a fortune buying and selling on the black market.
The scenes at the end of the novel, when Oran's gates are reopened, recall the jubilant scenes in Paris when the city was liberated in 1944.
In chapter four of the second Inspector Hanaud novel, The House of the Arrow ( 1924 ), Hanaud declares sanctimoniously to the heroine, " You are wise, Mademoiselle … For, after all, I am Hanaud.
She later said her years at the home " were the happiest years " of her life ; many of the incidents in her novel Little Women ( 1868 ) are based on this period.
Seeing Calgary and Edmonton are part of a single economic region as the TD study did in 2003 was novel.
All humans in the novel ( except Pham ) are descended from Nyjoran stock.
To Popper, science does not rely on induction, instead scientific investigations are inherently attempts to falsify existing theories through novel tests.
The last words of the poem " On Wenlock Edge " are used by Audrey R. Langer for the title of the 1989 novel Ashes Under Uricon.
* Amicable numbers are featured in the novel The Professor's Beloved Equation by Yoko Ogawa, and in the Japanese film based on it.
* Amicable numbers are featured briefly in the novel The Stranger House by Reginald Hill.
Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight are set during the same timespan and adopt several elements directly from the graphic novel.
* The concluding scene where Batman and Gordon are on top of the police headquarters continues, to an extent, the final page of the graphic novel where newly promoted Jim Gordon waits for Batman to arrive.
Some of the driving research questions in studying how the brain itself processes language include: ( 1 ) To what extent is linguistic knowledge innate or learned ?, ( 2 ) Why is it more difficult for adults to acquire a second-language than it is for infants to acquire their first-language ?, and ( 3 ) How are humans able to understand novel sentences?
Catullus's poems and the closing section by Suetonius are the only documents in the novel which are not imagined.
The stories are the diaries of protagonist Claudine, which outline the education and growing up of the young girl, who is aged fifteen at the beginning of the first novel Claudine à l ' école.
The adventures of the Cimbri are described by the Danish nobel-prize-winning author, Johannes V. Jensen, himself born in Himmerland, in the novel Cimbrernes Tog ( 1922 ), included in the epic cycle Den lange Rejse ( English The Long Journey, 1923 ).
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