The origin of the eleven numbered chapters of the novel is explained in a prologue and epilogue, whose narrator is a neurologist.

In the film's brief prologue, an unseen narrator asks a series of rhetorical questions that prime the audience to view the film through a metaphysical lens touching on traditional philosophical questions involving determinism vs. philosophic libertarianism, as well as epistemology.

Without Warning uses the fictional town of Grover's Mill, Wyoming as an obvious homage to Welles ' broadcast, and the original broadcast was preceded by a brief prologue referencing the War of the Worlds broadcast, with the narrator reiterating that the film about to be shown was fiction.

In 1943, he took over as narrator of radio's The Adventures of Superman ; it was Beck who intoned the familiar prologue " strange visitor from another planet ..." Decades later, he portrayed Perry White, Clark Kent's boss in Filmation's The New Adventures of Superman animated series and was narrator as well.

Before the film proper begins, the title is announced by the narrator ( after delivering a spoken prologue, he says, " And now, ' Portrait of Jennie '").

The novel opens with a brief prologue set in 1957 in which the narrator, an Italian Jew, describes a visit to the Ferrara cemetery where the Finzi-Contini family mausoleum stands, empty in all but two slots: a young child, Guido, who died of illness before the narrator was born ; and Alberto, the son of the Finzi-Continis and a friend of the narrator's, who died of lymphogranulomatosis ( Hodgkin ’ s disease ) before the mass deportation that sent the remainder of the family to a concentration camp in Germany.

He shoots and apparently kills its pilot, Arthur Frayn ( Niall Buggy ), who has already identified himself as an Eternal in the story's prologue.

The second recension adds a prologue in which Ailill and Medb compare their respective wealths and find that the only thing that distinguishes them is Ailill's possession of the phenomenally fertile bull Finnbhennach, who had been born into Medb's herd but scorned being owned by a woman so decided to transfer himself to Ailill's.

They give insight into the role of women in the Late Middle Ages and are probably of interest to Chaucer himself, for the character is one of his most developed ones, with her prologue twice as long as her tale.

His poem itself, namely the prologue, provides a clue to his identity: the poet identifies himself as " a certain Rustveli.

Vonnegut explains the title himself in the opening lines of the book's prologue:

Robert Holmes was initially commissioned to novelise his own story, but wrote only the book's prologue, sending it to Dicks with a note telling him to finish the rest himself.

* El compadrito: su destino, sus barrios, su música 1945, anthology of Argentine writers, including articles and a prologue by Borges himself, and articles by Evaristo Carriego and Adolfo Bioy Casares.

In Bologna he entertained himself by performing various translations, such as Cartas de Jose Antonio Constantini ( Letters from Jose Antonio Constantini ), in eight volumes, which he completed in the Papal States, Arte de encomendarse a Dios by Father Antonio Francesco Bellati, and the famous picaresque novel by Alain René Lesage, Gil Blas de Santillana, in whose prologue he accused the French author of having stolen and translated several Spanish novels of the genre to compose his own.

The game's prologue reveals that Bruce Banner has exiled himself in a cabin in the American badlands as he attempts to create a machine to cure himself, transforming into the Hulk and letting off steam in an area where he cannot endanger innocent people.

Evidence for this is found in the prologue to the Gospel of Luke, wherein the author alludes to his sources by writing, " Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us, just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

" The Satan ", meaning literally " the adversary ", appears in the prose prologue of Job, where he is not the devil, as he becomes in later Christian works, but one of the celestial beings who stand before God in the heavenly court.

The speeches of Elihu ( who is not mentioned in the prologue ) are claimed to contradict the fundamental opinions expressed by the " friendly accusers " in the central body of the poem, according to which it is impossible that the righteous should suffer, all pain being a punishment for some sin.

In its prologue, the author gratuitously insulted Cervantes, who not surprisingly took offense and responded ; the last half of Chapter LIX and most of the following chapters of Cervantes ' Segunda Parte lend some insight into the effects upon him ; Cervantes manages to work in some subtle digs at Avellaneda's own work, and in his preface to Part II, comes very near to criticizing Avellaneda directly.

a prologue to one of his plays, Terence meets the charge of receiving assistance in the composition of his plays by claiming as a great honour the favour which he enjoyed with those who were the favorites of the Roman people.

These early performances were given in Latin, and were preceded by a vernacular prologue spoken by a herald who gave a synopsis of the events.

In the England of the Aesthetic Movement, Aubrey Beardsley's drawings attested profound kinship with the figure ; Olive Custance ( who would marry Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas ) published the poem " Pierrot " in 1897 ; and Ernest Dowson wrote the verse-play Pierrot of the Minute ( 1897, illustrated by Beardsley ), to which the composer Sir Granville Bantock would later contribute an orchestral prologue ( 1908 ).

The prologue in both drafts has Indiana in Mexico battling for possession of Montezuma's mask with a man who owns gorillas as pets.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who appeared in the prologue to the film based on his novel of the same name, reportedly showed a reel of O ' Brien's animation from the film to his friends, claiming it was real footage of living dinosaurs, to try to convince them that his story was based on fact.

Sturges wanted the film to begin with the prologue: " This is the story of a man who wanted to wash an elephant.

The word itself originates with the Roman comic playwright Plautus, who coined the term somewhat facetiously in the prologue to his play Amphitryon.

The claim he put forward in the prologue to be the earliest English satirist offended John Marston, who attacked him in satires published in 1598.

The Quranic account of Jesus begins with a prologue, which describes the birth of his mother, Mary, and her service in the Jerusalem temple, while under the care of the prophet and priest Zechariah, who was to be the father of John the Baptist.

We learn this from the prologue to the third book, which is dedicated to Eutychus, who has been identified with the famous charioteer and favorite of Gaius.

The prologue to the later version of the Táin says this was a result of a dispute between Ailill and Medb over who was wealthier.

And secondly Pablo Neruda, who in his prologue to Ramón ’ s Obras selectas Works ( 1971 ) claimed that ‘ la gran figura del surrealismo, entre todos los países, ha sido Ramón ’ major figure of surrealism, in any country, has been Ramón.

One response is from a Mr. " Carter ," a leading figure in a British intelligence agency, who provides the background to Jane Finn, all of which is earlier revealed to the reader in the book's prologue.

The prologue opens with the introduction of triad boss Hon Sam ( Eric Tsang ), who sends a number of young gangsters to the police academy as moles, among whom include a young Lau ( Edison Chen ).

Treatise on the Astrolabe addressed to his son Lowys AD 1391. As the Franklin says in his prologue, his story is in the form of a Breton lai, although it is in fact based on a work by the Italian poet and author Boccaccio ( Filocolo 1336 retold in the 1350s as the 5th tale on the 10th day of the Decameron ) in which a young knight called Tarolfo falls in love with a lady married to another knight, extracts a promise to satisfy his desire if he can create a flowering Maytime garden in winter, meets a magician Tebano who performs the feat using spells, but releases her from the rash promise when he learns of her husband's noble response.

Most people who saw the car imagined its early retirement but was faster than works team Mitsubishi Pajero at the prologue stage, and ran for more than a week until it broke its suspension.

This novel begins with a brief prologue describing the aliens who created the black monoliths.

The Pardoner's confession is similar in its revelation of details to the prologue by the Wife of Bath, who gives away details about herself in her prologue.

His Amphitryon begins with a prologue in which the speaker Mercury claims that since the play contains kings and gods, it cannot be a comedy and must be a tragicomedy.

In the prologue to his Aetia, he claims that Apollo visited him and admonished him to " fatten his flocks, but to keep his muse slender ," a clear indication of his choice of carefully crafted and allusive material.

The prologues of all other manuscripts, though only included marginally, so closely resemble this first prologue that William Newell claims they must be copies.

In his opening prologue, Fulgentius claims that the purpose in writing the Mythologies was to strip the classic Greek stories of all their fictitious and meaningless details in order to reveal the obscured truths they contain.

The Monk, in his prologue, claims to have a hundred of these stories in his cell but the Knight stops him after only seventeen saying that they have had enough sadness.