The intuition about mankind conveyed in these opening pages is of crucial importance for understanding the remainder of the text ; ;

In the opening pages, the narrator encounters a copy of Manon Lescaut in the auction of Marguerite Gautier's estate, and buys it.

Curtius wrote as follows in the opening pages of European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages ( 1953 English translation ), following close on Toynbee, as he sets the stage for his vast study of medieval Latin literature.

Because of the very quiet opening pages of the ballet score, the composer added a brief " Fanfare pour précéder La Peri " which gave the typically noisy audiences of the day time to settle in their seats before the work proper began.

Destiny lost the Book of Destiny in the opening storyline of the new Brave and the Bold series, and when Lobo and Supergirl arrive in his garden he speaks about how it was intended to reach the four men who existed outside its pages, in the process waylaid by the Luck Lords in a bid to reshape reality.

In the opening pages of A Princess of Mars, it is revealed that Carter can remember no childhood, having always been a man of about thirty years old.

Sometimes Oklahomans refer to the state prison simply as " Big Mac " or " McAlester ," and the town is referenced in that manner in the opening pages of The Grapes of Wrath when Tom Joad is released from there.

" He did so in part as a response to people opening false social-networking pages in his name, as well as those of his children.

Although he never followed through, he included Lady Chatterley's Lover as an example of an obscene book that must not reach domestic audiences, declaring " I've not taken ten minutes on Lady Chatterley's Lover, outside of looking at its opening pages.

In the opening pages Clamence casually remarks,

It was played at Madonna's wedding ; sampled by Mýa in her hit single " It's All About Me ," which featured Sisqó ; used in the soundtrack of the movie Pumping Iron II: The Women ; featured in the Indian movie Koi ... Mil Gaya ; name-dropped in the opening pages of Sister Souljah's 2011 novel Midnight and the Meaning of Love ( as " Moments of Love "); used in a number of advertisements ; and remixed, covered, and sampled by numerous other artists years afterward.

The lyrics to " Time of the Preacher " were used in the opening pages of the first issue of the Vertigo comic book Preacher.

As another indicator, here is the opening paragraph of his 350-page tutorial entitled Sound ( 1867 ): " In the following pages I have tried to render the science of acoustics interesting to all intelligent persons, including those who do not possess any special scientific culture.

The book's opening pages have examples of Stephen's thoughts and conscious experience when he is a child.

This said, the history of Le Devoir would become characterized by varying phases ( as well as shades ) of French Canadian and later Québécois nationalism, opening its pages in the troubled 1930s to Groulx and his followers, yet seeing a federalist at its helm in 1964 in the form of Claude Ryan, who in 1978 would go on to become leader of the federalist Quebec Liberal Party.

Zenia herself, in the opening pages of the novel, is introduced as a Gretel-figure, alone in a forest from an old woodcut, without family or guardian spirits, but dangerous for this.

The narrator is at an earlier stage in his own transition from a simplistic celebration of life in the opening pages to his own growing separation from mankind.

On opening the book, Borges finds that the pages are written in an indecipherable script appearing in double columns, ordered in versicle as in a Bible.

Especially in his later works, Davidson came to delight in deliberately including many elements that beginning writers are told to avoid, such as page-long sentences with half a dozen colons and semi-colons, or an irrelevant digression in the opening pages of a story.

Interestingly, none of the ferocious detractors review the techniques and their effectiveness, but instead concentrate on whether Castaneda has been entirely truthful, despite his open admission in the opening pages of the first book that he lied shamelessly to the Nagual Juan.

Additionally, when the story was removed from the Memoirs, its opening pages, where Holmes emulates Dupin, were transferred to the beginning of " The Adventure of the Resident Patient ".

For example, in the opening of the first episode of the series, only the back and hand of partner Chaney, gripping the pages of a tax manual while seated at a desk, is seen after he has dropped dead of a heart attack.

The shooting script was 95 pages and includes a longer opening scene that was filmed featuring Kenner's former Japanese partner Eddie Yosuto.

The opening twenty pages of Blast 1 contain the Vorticist manifesto, written by Lewis with assistance from Pound and signed by Lewis, Wadsworth, Pound, William Roberts, Helen Saunders, Lawrence Atkinson, Jessica Dismorr, and Gaudier-Brzeska.

Plato's ( and Plutarch's ) works are divided into numbers, and each number will be divided into equal sections a, b, c, d and e. As such, this system is often used to reference Plato-for example, Symposium 172a would refer the reader to the opening of Plato's Symposium.

After paying tribute to the conductor and his white-clad youthful students, President Kennedy said, `` As an American I have the greatest possible pride in the work that is being done in dozens of schools stretching across the United States -- schools where devoted teachers are studying with interested young men and women and opening up the whole wide horizon of serious music ''.

Further improvements in earnings of the Kansas Turnpike are expected late in 1961, with the opening of a new bypass at Wichita, and still later when the turnpike gets downtown connections in both Kansas City, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo..

( 2 ) Realtors realize, of course, that they are involved in an increasingly complex legal and political system that is opening up opportunities for leverage on their relation to clients as well as opportunities for evasion of their responsibility for racial discrimination in housing.

In the case of the tapering worm tubes Selkirkia, trilobites are always found with their heads directed towards the opening of the tube, suggesting that they reversed in ; the absence of any moulted carapaces suggests that moulting was not their primary reason for seeking shelter.

* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.

The government has undertaken regulatory reforms in some areas, including substantial opening of trade policy, but inefficient public administration in which commercial and regulatory interests are co-mingled limit the impact of these reforms.

These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.

The timing of the opening of the Drake Passage, between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula, is more disputed ; tectonic and sediment evidence show that it could have been open as early as pre 34 Ma, estimates of the opening of the Drake passage are between 20 and 40 Ma.

A series of team-sponsored fan motorcoach trips from Tucson to Bank One Ballpark were inaugurated for the opening season and are still in operation to this day ( it is now known as the " Diamond Express ").

* Mode I is an opening or tensile mode where the loadings are normal to the crack.

Female placental mammals have completely separate orifices for defecation, urination, and reproduction ; males have one opening for defecation and another for both urination and reproduction, although the channels flowing to that orifice are almost completely separate.

By opening the stop wider, similar deviations arise for lateral points as have been already discussed for axial points ; but in this case they are much more complicated.

Thus if the instrument depends on the pressure or suction effect alone, and this pressure or suction is measured against the air pressure in an ordinary room, in which the doors and windows are carefully closed and a newspaper is then burnt up the chimney, an effect may be produced equal to a wind of 10 mi / h ( 16 km / h ); and the opening of a window in rough weather, or the opening of a door, may entirely alter the registration.

The opening track, "' Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum ', includes many references to parades in Mardi Gras in New Orleans, where participants are masked, and " determined to go all the way " of the parade route, in spite of being intoxicated.

Spare or used blades are stored in the hollow handle of some models, and can be accessed by removing a screw and opening the handle.

This trade has become renowned as one of the most lopsided in baseball history, including a mention by Susan Sarandon in her opening soliloquy in the 1988 film Bull Durham: " Bad trades are a part of baseball.

The main themes of the book are introduced in the opening poem ( the " Song of Hannah "): ( 1 ), the sovereignty of Yahweh, God of Israel ; ( 2 ), the reversal of human fortunes ; and ( 3 ), kingship.

There are nearly one hundred galleries open to the public, representing of exhibition space, although the less popular ones have restricted opening times.

Marie and Sudbury ), most retailers are prohibited from opening on Boxing Day, either by provincial law or municipal bylaw, or instead by informal agreement among major retailers in order to provide a day of relaxation following Christmas Day.

Boston backgrounds are shown in the opening scences including Banacek rowing on the Charles River and walking through Government Center.

Large beaks were found on the islands where the primary source of food for the finches are nuts and therefore the large beaks allowed the birds to be better equipped for opening the nuts and staying well nourished.

The flowers are pale purple, and star-shaped with six petals, 1 – 2 cm wide, and produced in a dense inflorescence of 10-30 together ; before opening, the inflorescence is surrounded by a papery bract.

Ballots are manually counted by the five vocales, after the table has closed, at least eight hours after opening, and the counting witnessed by representatives of all the parties who choose to have observers.