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F. Scott Fitzgerald uses the latter type of ambiguity with notable effect in his novel The Great Gatsby.
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.
In the novel, the Society uses the Babbage engines along with a statistical science called Cliology to predict and manipulate future history.
Biotechnology is being applied for novel uses other than food.
At least one published mystery novel uses aspects of the myth as the centerpoint of the plot.
The book includes all needed surveying and structural calculations, and a novel simplified building system that copes with regional shortages of wood and steel, uses easily-stored inexpensive materials, and produces long-lasting classic buildings with small amounts of materials, design and labor.
* The Moonstone ( 1868 ) by Wilkie Collins uses a collection of various documents to construct a detective novel in English.
" The Parisians, though, was not published until 1872, while William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Pendennis ( 1850 ) uses the phrase ironically, implying it was already established.
The approach is novel in that it uses a mostly stock aircraft with a modified landing gear " pod " that carries the engine for road propulsion.
Orwell also uses the technique of false document in an appendix to the same novel, titled " The Principles of Newspeak ," where Orwell offers a linguistic guide to Oceania's official language, Newspeak from the perspective of the country's ruling party, along with policy prescriptions for how the language may develop in the future.
The 1915 novel Plutonia by Vladimir Obruchev uses the concept of the hollow Earth to take the reader through various geological epochs.
In the 1976 Ira Levin novel The Boys from Brazil and its 1978 film adaptation, Josef Mengele uses cloning to create copies of Adolf Hitler.
* The John Green novel, The Fault in Our Stars commonly uses the term by the characters to describe themselves as being from Indiana.
* Simon Hawke uses the story as the basis for The Ivanhoe Gambit the first novel in his time travel adventure series TimeWars.
* 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses ; this date is now traditionally called " Bloomsday ".
The novel also acts as a terrifying realization of some of Kant's fundamental ideas ; Sartre uses the idea of the autonomy of the will ( that morality is derived from our ability to choose in reality ; the ability to choose being derived from human freedom ; embodied in the famous saying " Condemned to be free ") as a way to show the world's indifference to the individual.
* In the anime adaptation of the 2009 Japanese visual novel, Steins ; Gate, the character Yūgo Tennōji, aka ' Mr. Braun ', uses the pseudonym ' FB ', after Karl Ferdinand Braun.
Loglan ’ s inventor, James Cooke Brown, also wrote a utopian science fiction novel The Troika Incident ( 1970 ) that uses Loglan phrases but calls the language a different name, " Panlan ".
Alastair Reynolds also uses ringworlds in his 2008 novel House of Suns.
The MIT Media Lab houses researchers developing novel uses of computer technology.
Several major computer-related organizations have originated at MIT since the 1980s: Richard Stallman's GNU Project and the subsequent Free Software Foundation were founded in the mid-1980s at the AI Lab ; the MIT Media Lab was founded in 1985 by Nicholas Negroponte and Jerome Wiesner to promote research into novel uses of computer technology ; the World Wide Web Consortium standards organization was founded at the Laboratory for Computer Science in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee ; the OpenCourseWare project has made course materials for over 2, 000 MIT classes available online free of charge since 2002 ; and the One Laptop per Child initiative to expand computer education and connectivity to children worldwide was launched in 2005.
* In the novel Tomorrow by Andrew Saltzman ( ISBN 1-4243-1027-X ), a scientist uses nanorobotics to create a liquid that when inserted into the bloodstream, renders one nearly invincible given that the microscopic machines repair tissue almost instantaneously after it is damaged.
Orhan Pamuk's historical novel Benim Adım Kırmızı ( My Name is Red, 1998 ) takes place at the court of Murad III, during nine snowy winter days of 1591, which the writer uses in order to convey the tension between East and West.
Stephen King uses the word in his 2006 novel Lisey's Story.
Tim Dorsey uses the word in his 2010 novel, Gator a-Go-Go.

novel and standard
Since the 1990s, several novel classes of antiemetics have been developed and commercialized, becoming a nearly universal standard in chemotherapy regimens, and helping to successfully manage these symptoms in a large portion of patients.
Italian literature's first modern novel, I Promessi Sposi ( The Betrothed ), by Alessandro Manzoni, further defined the standard by " rinsing " his Milanese " in the waters of the Arno " ( Florence's river ), as he states in the Preface to his 1840 edition.
It is common for such novel meanings to diverge significantly from the standard meaning.
Pioneers at the Japanese facility RIKEN were the first to use a giant gas catcher and novel electric fields to do this, which is becoming the standard technique.
In Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth ( 1954 ), a young Roman officer searches to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in the northern part of Great Britain.
The 35 mm width with 4 perforations per frame became accepted as the international standard gauge in 1909, and has remained by far the dominant film gauge for image origination and projection despite challenges from smaller and larger gauges, and from novel formats, because its size allowed for a relatively good tradeoff between the cost of the film stock and the quality of the images captured.
The novel is notable stylistically for its use of an invented Lunar dialect consisting predominantly of standard English and Australian colloquial words but strongly influenced by Russian grammar, especially omission of article " the ", which does not exist in most Slavic languages ( cf.
For saga pastiches originating in English, Eric Brighteyes set a standard of quality and fidelity to the saga style that remained unmatched until Poul Anderson's novel The Broken Sword, 60 years later.
Another important theme of the novel is the sexual double standard to which Tess falls victim ; despite being, in Hardy's view, a truly good woman, she is despised by society after losing her virginity before marriage.
Around this time, linear perspective as a novel artistic tool spread not only in Italy but throughout western Europe, and quickly became standard studio practice up to and including present time.
Even in his earliest works, where he uses the standard French model, Rameau — the born symphonist and master of orchestration — composes novel and unique pieces.
This translation, titled The Kill, became the standard English text of the novel for over a century.
Our own Iliad and Odyssey, created from standard elements of the dime novel and the pulp western as romanticized by Buntline, Harte, and Twain.
This novel has become a modern classic, a standard against which fictional recreations of antiquity are measured.
* In a landmark obscenity case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the banned novel John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland did not meet the Roth standard for obscenity.
The novel might be easily dismissed as standard pulp fare if it had not presaged concepts popularized decades later: the sexual revolution, green consumerism, strong AI, full-immersion virtual reality as a surgical procedure ( like The Matrix ), desktop molecular manufacturing, global warming, and stem cell therapies.
Vulcan FlipStart is a super compact PC that weighs 1. 75 pounds ( with standard high capacity battery ) and is only the size of a paperback novel ( 4. 5 by 5. 9 by 1. 6 inches with high capacity battery ).
The Boogiepop and Others novel has received more favorable reviews, though these have mostly focused on the translation, which has been cited as " a standard against which future Japanese novel translations are judged ".
Those terms are that the prize shall be given " for the American novel published during the year which shall best present the wholesome atmosphere of American life, and the highest standard of American manners and manhood.
This novel, often treated as a book for children, is one of the most savage satires in the English language and set a high standard for Irish writers to come.
In Brown's novel, Skipjack is proposed as the new public-key encryption standard, along with a back door secretly inserted by the NSA (" a few lines of cunning programming ") which would have allowed them to decrypt Skipjack using a secret password and thereby " read the world's email ".
Among these is another melodramatic novel, " La oasis de la vida " written in the 1880s as an advertisement for the insurance company " La Buenos Aires ": the plot is the standard " poor orphan boy can't marry his true love ", but all is resolved when he finally discovers his parents had a life insurance policy with company, and so he isn't quite so poor after all.
Several usages of future slang in early editions of the novel were " corrected " to standard spellings in the 1999 Vintage Books edition.
According to Chris McGee, Anderson's writing style allows the reader to see how Melinda struggles with " producing the standard, cohesive narrative " expected in a teen novel.

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