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The narrator hypothesises that this " sentinel " was left on the moon as a " warning beacon " for possible intelligent and spacefaring species that might develop on Earth.
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The narrator is an Alsatian serving with the French Army, and he has the same name ( Berger ) that Malraux himself was later to use in the Resistance ; ;
`` He was not much older than myself, '' writes the narrator, `` when he began to feel the impact of that human mystery which now obsesses me, and which makes me begin, perhaps, to understand him ''.
In August 1967 Capp was the narrator and host of an ABC network special called Do Blondes Have More Fun?
At the premier in April 2001, Pat Sajak was the narrator.
But even in Japan, a figure such as the benshi, the live narrator who was a major part of Japanese silent cinema, found his acting career was ending.
He was also the narrator of the film My Dog Skip, released in that year.
The poem's claim that the narrator would be inspired to act if the song of the maid could be heard was a belief that Coleridge held regarding Evans after she become unattainable to him.
Malinche is the narrator of the novel which was published in 1987 by Viking Press.
The Gospel of Matthew states that the " disciples were indignant " and John's gospel states that it was Judas Iscariot who was most offended ( which is explained by the narrator as being because Judas was a thief and desired the money for himself ).
* In his book World of Wonders writer Robertson Davies has narrator Magnus Eisengrim refer to Spengler's conception that the Middle Ages had a Magian World View, the view that the world was filled with wonders.
The NFL highlight film of this game was the final voice over work for famous NFL narrator John Facenda.
It was a partnership between Oliver Postgate ( writer, animator and narrator ) and Peter Firmin ( modelmaker and illustrator ).
The book ends with the narrator awakening from his dream of heaven into the unpleasant reality of wartime Britain, in conscious imitation of The Pilgrim's Progress, the last sentence of the " First Part " of which is: " So I awoke, and behold, it was a Dream.
In his fictionalised but autobiographical Memoirs of an Infantry Officer, published in 1930, Siegfried Sassoon's narrator ruminates from his hospital bed in Denmark Hill, London, in 1917 that " Even the screech and rumble of electric trams was a friendly sound ; trams meant safety ; the troops in the trenches thought about trams with affection.
" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a study of the effect terror has on the narrator, starting with the opening line that suggests he is already suffering from death anxiety (" I was sick — sick unto death with that long agony ") and, shortly thereafter, when he loses consciousness upon receiving the death sentence.
The programme's original narrator was Tim Whitnall.
Elissa is the narrator of this tale which was either taken from a fabliau by Jean de Condé written between 1313 and 1337, or from a story about Saint Jerome in The Golden Legend, written about 1260.
The series was made by Smallfilms, the company set up by Oliver Postgate ( writer, animator and narrator ) and Peter Firmin ( modelmaker and illustrator ).
A dramatized version directed by Douglas Cleverdon and starring Jane Asher was recorded in the late-1950s by Argo Records, with actors Tony Church, Norman Shelley and Carleton Hobbs, and Margaretta Scott as the narrator.
A very abridged spoken word reading of " There Will Come Soft Rains " and " Usher II " was made in 1975 with Leonard Nimoy as narrator.
" The narrator learns this copy of Manon Lescaut was a gift from Armand to Marguerite, Armand telling him that she read the story " over and over again ," making notes in the margins and " declar that when a woman loves, she can not do as Manon did.
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The narrator speculates at one point that the mysterious aliens who left this structure on the Moon may have used mechanisms belonging " to a technology that lies beyond our horizons, perhaps to the technology of para-physical forces.
In it the narrator, Paul Iverson, discovers that his recently deceased wife left an encrypted message to him in their bookshelf, quoting Tam Lin.
The narrator is Fanny, whose mother ( called " The Bolter " for her habit of serial monogamy ) and father have left her to be brought up by her Aunt Emily and the valetudinarian Davey, whom Emily marries early in the novel.
In 1990, the show did away with the anchor position, and left the narrator to introduce each report.
" His name was accidentally left out of the credits, leading many to believe ( erroneously ) that the cartoon's narrator, Boris Karloff, sang the song while others cited Tennessee Ernie Ford as the song's signature voice.
After a year of classes the narrator finally took Doc Jennings advise and left school.
Glahn has left Nordland and moved to India to be alone in the forest and to hunt, but he is suicidal because of his lost love, and when he can not bear it any longer he provokes the narrator of the Epilogue into shooting him.
The Romanian climate is improved by afforestation, the country is spanned by canals, and the garden-like Bucharest, over which the narrator and Aru, his friend from the future, fly in a moored balloon, no longer has any churches left standing.
" Warner Anderson left the series after the first season, but continued as narrator to the series until the final episode.
The narrator had developed genuine feelings for Edith, and while she did seem to reciprocate them, at least to a small degree, he is left despondent after she ends their liaison to salvage her marriage to Severin.
The narrator and his cousin attempt to traverse the South to join the Union Army in the American Civil War, though they encounter Rebel resistance in Indianola ( state left undefined ).
Once the plane has landed, Bob is whisked away in a straitjacket, as everyone believes that he has gone insane ; however, the narrator informs the viewers that Bob's stay will be short-lived, and the final shot reveals why: The gremlin has left evidence of Bob's story, in the form of the damaged wing.
The identity of the narrator is left to the reader, though possibilities include Bertha Plummer, the blind daughter of Caleb Plummer, and the baby, fully grown and returned to his childhood home.
Through the narrator's first person account we hear the story of the people and the events of i. The central tension is created by Margaret, once a lover of the narrator, and in, a rebellious man who has left i to live near a forbidden area called the Forgotten Works.
The narrator, a young Greek intellectual, resolves to set aside his books for a few months after being stung by the parting words of a friend, Stavridakis, who has left for the Caucasus in order to help some ethnic Greeks who are undergoing persecution.
Speaking of Mary Seton's mother, the narrator states, " If she had left two or three hundred thousand pounds to Fernham, we could have been sitting at our ease tonight and the subject of our talk might have been archaeology, botany, anthropology, physics, the nature of the atom, mathematics, astronomy, relativity, geography.
Orson Scott Card, writing expressly from a genre perspective, faulted Vidal's narrator as " intensely boring ," but praised the apocalyptic conclusion: " Kalki left me with the haunting feeling that there was something grateful about four billion people leaving life suddenly, without panic.
The boyfriend of the song's narrator is a failed musician who left his native Georgia to move to Los Angeles to become a " superstar, but he didn't get far ".
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For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".
In the 2002 novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, the narrator and protagonist Lily describes a punishment her abusive father routinely inflicted on her: kneeling on grits.
The narrator, having been trapped on an island of animals vivisected ( unsuccessfully ) into human beings, eventually returns to England ; like Gulliver on his return from the Houyhnhnms, he finds himself unable to shake off the perceptions of his fellow humans as barely civilised beasts, slowly reverting to their animal natures.
For future editions of the book, in 1917 Conrad wrote an " Author's Note " where he discusses each of the three stories, and makes light commentary on the character Marlow-the narrator of the tales within the first two stories.
An animated holiday special, The Happy Elf, aired on NBC in December 2005, with Connick as the composer, the narrator, and one of the executive producers.
The poem expands on the gothic hints of the first stanza as the narrator explores the dark chasm in the midst of Xanadu's gardens, and describes the surrounding area as both " savage " and " holy ".
The novel is presented in the form of diary entries maintained on a PowerBook by the narrator, Daniel.
In 1984, BBC Radio 4 broadcast two 90-minute plays based on Titus Groan and Gormenghast, adapted by Brian Sibley and starring Sting as Steerpike and Freddie Jones as the Artist ( narrator ).
The narrator flies his craft, the " Astronaut ," to visit diminutive beings on Mars.
Young's fictional narrator explains that, on the one hand, the greatest contributor to society is not the " stolid mass " or majority, but the " creative minority " or " restless elite ".
The narrator then finishes the film by concluding that the human race is equivalent to insects crawling on the planet's surface.
In Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall ( 1848 ) the narrator, Gilbert Markham, brings an elegantly bound copy of Marmion as a present to the independent " tenant of Wildfell Hall " ( Helen Graham ) whom he is courting, and is mortified when she insists on paying for it.
The next day, the narrator returns to the ruins of his home to find, imprinted on the single wall that survived the fire, the figure of a gigantic cat, hanging by its neck from a rope.
Then, completely confident in his own safety, the narrator comments on the sturdiness of the building and raps upon the wall he had built around his wife's body.
The alarmed police tear down the wall and find the wife's corpse, and on her head, to the horror of the narrator, is the screeching black cat.
The narrator inexplicably finds himself in a grim and joyless city, the " grey town ", which is either hell or purgatory depending on how long one stays there.
When the bus reaches its destination, the passengers on the bus — including the narrator — are gradually revealed to be ghosts.
Toward the end, the narrator expresses the terror and agony of remaining a ghost in the advent of full daybreak in heaven, comparing the experience to having large blocks fall on one's body ( at this point falling books awaken him ).
The " reality " of the story is enhanced through Poe's focus on sensation: the dungeon is airless and unlit, the narrator is subject to thirst and starvation, he is swarmed by rats, the closing walls are red-hot metal and, of course, the razor-sharp pendulum threatens to slice into the narrator.
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