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In the story, a Sinologist discovers a manuscript by a Chinese writer where the same tale is recounted in several ways, often contradictory, and then explains to his visitor ( the writer's grandson ) that his relative conceived time as a " garden of forking paths ", where things happen in parallel in infinitely branching ways.
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Unbreakable tells the story of Philadelphia security guard, David Dunn, who slowly discovers that he is invincible.
In the other version of the story, Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif Ericsson accidentally discovers the new land when travelling from Norway back to Greenland after a visit to his overlord, King Olaf Tryggvason, who commissions him to spread Christianity in the colony.
* You're Another, a 1955 short story by Damon Knight, is about a man who discovers that he is an actor in a " livie ", a live-action show that is viewed by billions of people in the future.
The concept was mentioned in a science fiction story by Julian Huxley, " The Tissue-Culture King ", first published in 1927, in which the protagonist discovers that " caps of metal foil " can be used to block the effects of telepathy.
The captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story.
The story is narrated by Manuel Garcia " Mannie " O ' Kelly-Davis, a computer technician who discovers that HOLMES IV has achieved self-awareness and has developed a sense of humor.
Christensen next starred with Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell and Rachel Bilson in the film Jumper, the story of a young man who discovers he has the ability to teleport ; the film was released on February 14, 2008 .< ref >
Uncle Remus discovers the two dejected children and cheers them by telling the story of Br ' er Rabbit and his " Laughing Place.
Taft refuses to believe Hugh ’ s story of faulty equipment, but discovers that it ’ s true after accessing the company ’ s computer records.
In most variants, Janet then goes home and discovers that she is pregnant ; some variants pick up the story at this point.
The story focuses on a former Episcopal priest named Graham Hess who discovers a series of crop circles in his cornfield.
It tells the story of a young man making a documentary of his life, who discovers something important about himself while making the movie.
As the story reaches its climax, Barbie discovers that the Cuckoo resembles herself as a child.
In Egypt, the story goes that a cook nearly killed a Wali for having smashed a pot of herbs, but later discovers that the pot contained a poisonous snake.
Within this flashback, an unreliable narrator tells a story to mislead the would-be murderer, who later discovers that he was misled after another character narrates the truth to him.
Henry discovers Punky in the empty apartment across from his, and hears her story.
It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware.
Through Wigand, Bergman discovers that Big Tobacco have distorted and exaggerated numerous claims, and convinces a reporter from the Wall Street Journal to delay the story until it can be disproven.
In the story of Venulus coming back from Apulia too we see the religious connotation of the wild olive: the king discovers one into which a local shepherd had been had been turned for failing to respect some nymphs he had come across in a nearby cavern, apparently Venilia, as she was the deity associated with the magic virtues of such tree.
Bobby London, who did the Popeye daily strip for six years, wrote and illustrated the " Return of Bluto " story where the 1932 version of Bluto returns and discovers a number of fat, bearded bullies have taken his place, calling themselves " Brutus " ( each one being a different version of Popeye's rival ).
The story concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman.
Sandra follows them and discovers their secret, and the story reaches its climax as a bad trip by Leah ( on an unnamed drug ) precipitates Sandra's breakup with Tony ; the news of Sandra's new job comes out ; and Sandra confronts Ste and Jamie.
Based on the novels by Len Deighton, this tells the story of an intelligence officer ( Holm ) who discovers that his own wife is an enemy spy.
With the help of some of Caligari's oblivious colleagues at the asylum, Francis discovers through old records that the man known as " Dr. Caligari " is obsessed with the story of a mythical monk called Caligari, who, in 1703, visited towns in northern Italy and similarly used a somnambulist under his control to kill people.
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Sörla þáttr is a short story in the later and extended version of the Saga of Olaf Tryggvason in the manuscript of the Flateyjarbók, which was written and compiled by two Christian priests, Jon Thordson and Magnus Thorhalson, in the late 14th century.
The oldest manuscript relating to this story was put online in 2012.
However, the story is found in only one unreliable manuscript of Anastasius.
A German bookseller and Freemason, living in Paris, working under the assumed name of C. Lenning, embellished the story further in a manuscript titled " Encyclopedia of Freemasonry " probably written between 1822 and 1828 at Leipzig.
Lewis later suggested that the experience gave him a new appreciation of children and in late September he began a children's story on an odd sheet of paper which has survived as part of another manuscript:
He began writing the manuscript of the story the next day, although that earliest version no longer exists.
The girls and Dodgson took another boat trip a month later when he elaborated the plot to the story of Alice, and in November he began working on the manuscript in earnest.
Rutherford wrote down Conway's story ; he gives the manuscript to the neurologist, and that manuscript becomes the heart of the novel.
When Mort's housemaid recovers the manuscript — thinking it belongs to Mort — he finally reads Shooter's story, discovering that it is almost identical to his short story " Secret Window ".
The manuscript contains eight miniatures: the wheel of fortune ( which actually is an illustration from the songs CB 14 – 18, but was placed by the book binder as the cover ), an imaginative forest, a pair of lovers, scenes from the story of Dido and Aeneas, a scene of drinking beer, and three scenes of playing games – dice, tables, and chess.
The story of Penthesilea segues so smoothly from the Iliad in the Epic Cycle that one manuscript tradition of the Iliad ends
The 17th-century publisher Humphrey Moseley once claimed to possess a manuscript of a play based on the Iphis and Ianthe story, by William Shakespeare.
House of Leaves, the tale of a man who finds a manuscript telling the story of a documentary that may or may not have ever existed, contains multiple layers of plot.
Then by degrees he led Vance along the ramifications of the Imperial family, to Uoht and Thale, from Naotalba and Phantom of Truth, to Aldones, and then tossing aside his manuscript and notes, he began the wonderful story of the Last King.
It is possible that the scenes set at Marlinspike would have been reduced in favour of balance of the story — in the original manuscript, Tintin, Snowy and Haddock do not leave for Ischia until page 31.
A manuscript of the romance in the city of Turin contains a prologue to the story of Huon de Bordeaux in the shape of a separate romance of Auberon, and four sequels, and there are later French versions as well.
Arthur is mentioned towards the end of this poem, and a fragment of a story about the battle preserved in manuscript Peniarth 98B states that the battle had an alternate name, Cad Achren, which suggests a connection with the Caer Ochren raided by Arthur in the earlier poem Preiddeu Annwfn.
Another popular story claims that the carol, once performed, was promptly forgotten until an organ repairman found the manuscript in 1825 and revived it.
The Turin manuscript also contains the romance of Les Lorrains a summary in seventeen lines of another version of the story, according to which Huon's exile is due to his having slain a count in the emperor's palace.
It is also notable that the very existence of Hermine in the novel is never confirmed ; the manuscript left in Harry Haller's room reflects a story that completely revolves around his personal experiences.
The story is presented as a manuscript " found among the papers of the late Francis Wayland Thurston, of Boston ".
After managers declined the manuscript, Reade adapted the story, weaving it into a novel which was serialised in The London Journal and published in three volumes the same year.
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