In chapter one, we are basically in the middle of the story, while the plot of the last Anarres-chapter ( i. e., the penultimate chapter, or, chapter twelve ) ends at a point before the plot of the first chapter begins.

The ensuing investigation resulted in Trevor-Roper's most famous book, The Last Days of Hitler ( 1947, with revised editions as late as 1995 ), in which he described the last ten days of Hitler's life, and the fates of some of the higher-ranking members of the inner circle as well of those lesser figures whose evidence was important for reconstructing this penultimate chapter of the war.

In 1984 Indira Gandhi brought an action against the book in the British courts, claiming to have been defamed by a single sentence in chapter 28, penultimate paragraph, in which her son Sanjay Gandhi is said to have had a hold over his mother by him accusing her of contributing to his father's Feroze Gandhi's death through her neglect.

Mencken relates the fire and its aftermath in the penultimate chapter of Newspaper Days, the second volume of his autobiography.

The penultimate scene in which the murderer is revealed is enlivened by one of the suspects attempting ( on stage ) to catch a bullet in his teeth, and all is explained in the final chapter when everyone gathers at Merlini's Magic Shop in the best whodunnit tradition.

It is the eighth chapter of Book VI, and it is the penultimate chapter of the whole story.

He directly addresses Marcus again only in the penultimate chapter, Disciplina Augusta.

In the penultimate chapter of The Dain Curse, a female client, whose life the Op has saved three times, while also curing her of morphine addiction, says to him:

In his penultimate chapter, Butler argues that three steps are necessary to disrupt the war racket:

In the penultimate chapter, Orme wavers on his conversion and submission to this Martian Jesus.

The most insight Heller provides into his body of his work is a discussion in the penultimate chapter of his experience with psychoanalysis.

Heller revisits his father's death in the chapter, and notes how so many of his works have a prominent, but not central, character's death described in the penultimate chapter ( e. g., Snowden in Catch-22 ).

This is the final book with Hester and Tom, as in the penultimate chapter of the book Tom suddenly has a fatal heart attack because of his bullet wounnd from Pennyroyal twenty years before, which leads to his inevitable death in Hester's arms.

Mommsen's penultimate chapter provides an outline of the ' nation building ' program begun by Caesar following his victory.

In fact, this view of the world as an organic entity itself is touched upon in the penultimate chapter of the book, and is similar to that of Gaia theory.

The penultimate and longest chapter, ' Lord Osmund's Lenten Party ' ( over 250 pages ), is a satirical account of a fancy-dress party held by three members of the ' Finnian Shaw ' family, who are clearly modelled on the Sitwell family, Osbert, Edith and Sacheverell.

After dropping off the penultimate draft of her senior essay on the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, at approximately 4: 15pm on Friday December 4, 1998, Suzanne Jovin began preparations for a pizza-making party she had organized at the Trinity Lutheran Church on 292 Orange St. for the local chapter of Best Buddies, an international organization that brings together students and mentally disabled adults.

These puzzles can slow the momentum down for players of fast action games ; the first Half-Lifes penultimate chapter, " Interloper ", featured multiple moving platforms high in the air with enemies firing at the player from all sides.

Friedman's Dell Theory of Conflict Prevention is discussed in the book's penultimate chapter.

This section of discantus is concluded, on the last syllable of a word or phrase, by a copula, in which the tenor sustains either the penultimate or the last tone and the duplum switches back to a florid cadence, to conclude on a consonance.

In the series ' penultimate episode, " Single Spaced ," Spence becomes obsessed with romancing Carrie when it appears she and Doug will divorce.

This becomes a recurring joke in the penultimate episode of Season Five, where Spike finds himself repeatedly having to explain to the Scooby Gang that Ben and Glory are the same person, only for them either to misunderstand him or to instantly forget.

The fourth rule is the core: A chain of 3 or more elements ending with 2 or higher becomes a chain of the same length with a ( usually vastly ) increased penultimate element.

He also points to a " verifiable pensato " in the last bar of Alban Berg's Lyric Suite: " The instruments drop out one by one, the four parts converging into a single line that continues into an ostinato on the last two notes of the derived series and becomes inaudible on the penultimate note of the series, seemingly continuing into the silence beyond.

In the penultimate episode Institutional Memory, Will considers taking a job as the Chief Executive of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, but becomes preoccupied with the task of finding a candidate to challenge incumbent Republican Congressman John Heffinger in the Oregon 4th in 2008.

MacDonald's " collapse " is given a slow build up throughout the series as the ultra-conservative, traditionalist host becomes increasingly more frustrated with the modern innovations he's forced to cover ( this is often played to comic effect, such as when he rails against the advent of the zamboni during one of his " Outrage of the Week " segments ), but accelerates when he loses his temper on the penultimate episode dealing with the hippie movement -- he is particularly frustrated with ( vintage ) news footage of a group of young people draping themselves over the statue of Queen Victoria in Queen's Park in Toronto.

The stress falls generally on the penultimate ( second-to-last ) syllable of a polysyllabic word, although there are exceptions.

The first and third lines of the last stanza are the second and fourth of the penultimate ; the first line of the poem is the last line of the final stanza, and the third line of the first stanza is the second of the final.

They are longer, on average, than the Peripatopsidae and also have more leg pairs, numbering between 22 and 43 — the gonopore is always between the penultimate pair.

" In conclusion, he observed, " The penultimate scenes are as vivid, swift, and brilliantly achieved as the first.

Barely moving, with eyes closed and communicating by telepathy, they are the penultimate form of human evolution, having become a single group mind readying themselves to join the Overmind.

Canadian teams are therefore more likely to find themselves with long yardage to make on the penultimate down, and therefore more likely to line up in the shotgun to increase their opportunities for a large gain.

* Samples from Conet Project recordings, most identifiably that listed as Tcp D1  3 Counting Control Irdial are famously used by Scottish electronic music outfit Boards of Canada on their 2002 album Geogaddi, most conspicuously on penultimate track " Corsair ".

Among the most famous are the claims that the Papal Tiara contains the number of the beast inscriptions on the Tiara, that a woman was once elected pope, or that current pope, Benedict XVI, will be the penultimate Pope.

In the Season 1 penultimate episode " Isabella ", two hit men are sent by Junior and Mikey Palmice in an attempt to assassinate Tony for supposedly giving mafia related information to Melfi ; unfortunately for Junior and Mikey, the hit fails.

On a Fischer projection, the penultimate carbon of D sugars are depicted with hydrogen on the left and hydroxide on the right.

A pair of crossovers north of the station are remnants of its status as the penultimate station of the Red Line from its opening until August 25, 1984, when the Red Line was extended westward once again to Grosvenor ; other extensions have taken place since then.

The chicane which was put in the penultimate turn for Formula 1 does not play a part in the track layout for Moto GP, and there are at least five points on the track ( turns 1, 2, 4, 10, 14 ) where riders are known to overtake.

Fragments of the theme are developed in various sections throughout the symphony ; it recurs in its entirety in the climactic penultimate movement.

In the penultimate episode of Season 4, the government overseers rule that the former Initiative base would be filled with cement to hide evidence of its existence, but in " The Killer in Me ", Buffy and Spike are able to access the ruined facility.

The Colloquium is an integral part of every Gallatin student's educational program, and students are required to complete their Colloquium their penultimate semester at the university in order to graduate.

Vowel length, primary stress ( penultimate and ultimate ), and secondary stress ( pre-penultimate ) are also reconstructed by Zorc.

Evala is the penultimate element of this initiation rite, during which young men are separated from their families for one week, residing in special huts where they are fed and subject to mental training.

Vincent Canby, film critic for The New York Times, had mixed feelings about the film but did like the acting and the screenplay, and wrote, " At Play in the Fields of the Lord doesn't play smoothly, but it often plays well ... Mr. Lithgow and Miss Hannah, who grows more secure as an actress with every film, are fine in complex roles that are exceptionally well written ... Though the film features a spectacular penultimate sequence, it seems not to know how to end.