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Eventually the reader meets a woman, who is also addressed in her own chapter, separately, and also in the second person.
When a reader can reasonably interpret the same sentence as having more than one possible structure, the text is equivocal and meets the definition of syntactic ambiguity.
While interned, Clamence meets a comrade, introduced to the reader only as " Du Guesclin ", who had fought in the Spanish Civil War, was captured by " the Catholic general ", and now found himself in the hands of the Germans in Africa.
The reader meets some of the early Eskimos, particularly a man named Oogruk and his family.
This is also where the reader first meets the fellow student who will ultimately become the protagonist in Kross ' novel Treading Air.
The reader can follow George de Sarre's later life as a diplomat in Greece in Peyrefitte's Les Ambassades and La Fin des ambassades, where he also meets Father de Trennes again.
In his first book, Old Mother West Wind, published in 1910, the reader meets many of the characters found in later books and stories.
On the way she meets Desire, goes to its realm, and listens to Desire tell her many things, only two of which are directly revealed to the reader: first, that most stories are about someone wanting something, and second, that getting what you want and being happy are two entirely separate things.
Modern Mills & Boon novels, almost one hundred of which are released each month, cover a wide range of possible romantic sub-genres, varying in explicitness, setting and style, although retaining a comforting familiarity that meets reader expectations.
The reader also meets Drex and Jo Stuart, the parents of frontman Mark Stuart.
Neither a travel guide nor a straightforward account of a trip as the name suggests, this is a highly personal account of Giono ’ s experiences and of the people he meets and sees that tells the reader more about Giono than about Italy.
Even as he maintains a dispassionate and often unforgiving stance towards the people he meets on his travels, he does not shirk from sharing his own perceived foibles and failings with the reader.
These true feelings are more clearly exposed to the reader in the bar where Little Chandler actually meets Gallaher.
This story arch can be seen more as a " filler " which the narrator and author, Yukie Nasu, admits exists to reintroduce the cast of Greenwood to the reader after the brief side-story (" Boy meets Boy ").
The reader first meets Dr. Rosenzweig as he is being interviewed by Cameron " Buck " Williams as Global Weekly's Man Of The Year.

reader and few
I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.
The similarity is so strong that the few variations may confuse a native English reader.
What invariably attracts the attention of the reader of a Coptic text, especially if it is written in the Sa ' idic dialect, is the very liberal use which is made of Greek loan words, of which so few, indeed, are to be found in the Ancient Egyptian language.
It is also used to mark the few verses to be repeated by the reader of the Haftara.
In later seasons, a few of these sketches were rewritten and reanimated with a much smarter slow reader who did not fall victim to any impending dangers.
However, Frank Norris, who was working as a reader at Doubleday, sent a few copies to literary reviewers.
Many of the poems were well known to the intended audience, so usually only the first few lines are given and the reader is supposed to complete the thought themselves, much like today we could say " when in Rome ..." and leave the rest of the saying ("... do as the Romans do ") unspoken.
He had few friends and was an avid news reader and radio talk show fan.
* Kim Peek, the basis for the character played by Dustin Hoffman in the movie Rain Man, was one of the few people ever verified to actually have an eidetic memory, and was also a speed reader and calculator.
Capp would milk reader suspense by having Silent " warm up " his rusty, creaking jaw muscles for a few days, before the momentous pronouncement.
The original article had summed up the situation in terms of the long-term rivalry between Whitehaven and nearby Workington: “ Legend has it that one town ’ s miners had jam on their sandwiches and the other did not, but no one agrees on which town it was or whether they did it because they were snobs or peasants .” A reader from Maryport, a few miles further up the Cumbria coast ( which, as occasionally mentioned in discussions on the topic, used to have a jam factory ) reported that he had understood the term originally referred to people from Whitehaven, and this was echoed in the comments on the Whitehaven News article, suggesting that a former distinction between the Whitehaven " jam eaters " and Workington " high siders " had gradually been lost in the trading of insults across the Rugby pitch.
" InfoWorld counted it among the very few weblogs that were " worth a visit ," Brill's Content claimed that it presented " news the way web pioneers envisioned it — hypertextual, wide-reaching, and exhaustive ," Fast Company called it " one of the best Web logs on the Net ," Feed wrote that the site was " frequented by thousands of the Net's most knowledgeable ," Wired hailed it as " one of the oldest and most popular weblogs ," and The New Yorker commended Barger's " healthy appetite for everything from literature to science ," whereas The Register found that " there's no better reader on the Internet than Jorn Barger.
In his introduction to Lupasco ’ s The Principle of Antagonism and the Logic of Energy, Nicolescu points out that once the reader gets beyond the ( relatively few ) mathematical formulas in this book, Lupasco ’ s language is perfectly accessible.
It is through his eyes that the reader experiences both the war against the alien Taurans and the changes in society and technology on Earth during the thousand-year conflict ( made possible by time dilation, a relativistic consequence of traveling close to the speed of light, which allows Mandella to age only a few years biologically in a millennia ).
The first clause establishes suspense about who actually rules the ghetto, and then the first few words of the second clause set up the reader with the expectation of an answer, which is metaphorically revealed only in the final word of the sentence.
Travellers touch the card on a distinctive yellow circular reader ( a Cubic Tri-Reader ) on the automated barriers at London Underground stations to ' touch in ' and ' touch out ' at the start and end of a journey ( contact is not necessary, but the range of the reader is only a few mm ).
The reader had only to find the mark of his book in the catalog, touch a few lettered or numbered keys, and book appeared after an astonishing short interval.
A few years ago, I began to notice " spoiler warnings " on Web-based movie reviews -- a shorthand way of informing the reader that a key plot point was about to be revealed.
The reader is given the impression that the journey to and from the Moon is undertaken in just a few hours, whereas the Apollo Moon journey took about three days to reach the Moon from Earth.
The careful reader will find quite a few rabbis.
According to Yves Gautier in the book, “ Michael Jackson, Backdoor to Neverland ”: “ Though few know about it, Michael Jackson is a voracious reader and there is a 10, 000-volume library in the Neverland Ranch, that focuses on art, psychology and poetry .”
He clothed manifold notions and ideas in a few words which so delighted the heart of his reader that he never wearied of perusing the poem.
A few pages of sci-fi, clearly not written by Lee, are interspersed so that the reader may be reminded that they paid $ 6 for a Clarke novel and not $ 2 for a grocery store romance tome.

reader and old
Much of its shock value derives from the fact that the first portion of the essay describes the plight of starving beggars in Ireland, so that the reader is unprepared for the surprise of Swift's solution when he states, " A young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragoust.
This humoristic effect is more difficult to see nowadays, because the reader must me able to distinguish those two old versions of the language, but when the book was published it was very much celebrated.
Critics of hypertext claim that it inhibits the old, linear, reader experience by creating several different tracks to read on, and that this in turn contributes to a postmodernist fragmentation of worlds.
However, it is also a playful take on an old archetype, the vampire ( the reader is even treated to Neville ’ s reading and put-down of Bram Stoker's Dracula ).
Dickens ' Carol was one of the greatest influences in rejuvenating the old Christmas traditions of England, but, while it brings to the reader images of light, joy, warmth and life, it also brings strong and unforgettable images of darkness, despair, coldness, sadness and death.
The novel shows its serial origin: it is very long ( an undated but clearly very old edition with tiny type fills 551 pages ) and its events occur over many years and in several countries before the reader reaches the predictable conclusion.
In its obituary of the scholar, The Independent stated that " Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time ... there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential ".
On his return to Geneva ( 1783 ) he accepted the post of reader to the brother of his old patron, Tronchin, and occupied himself with remodelling his published work of 1780.
The dialogue between the narrator Adso and the old priest Ubertino, tell us the story of Fra Dolcino, leaving much to the imagination of the reader.
In computer science, multiple buffering is the use of more than one buffer to hold a block of data, so that a " reader " will see a complete ( though perhaps old ) version of the data, rather than a partially updated version of the data being created by a " writer ".
For example, one chapter centers on a young provincial man who feels lonely and alienated in the capital Stockholm, is befriended by a nice old gentleman who tells him ( and the reader ) about the city's history-and only later finds that it was none other than the King of Sweden, walking incognito in the park.
Additionally, each strip is accompanied by an audio dramatization with voices, sound effects and music, a feature designed with blind fans of " old time radio " in mind, but one that any reader may access.
This is a gallant authorial gesture, as when a professor at Cornell, Nabokov had complained from the lectern of authors who ask readers to accept a character's gifts on faith: " The author has hinted already that Gurov focus of Chekhov's Lady with the Little Dog was witty in the company of women: and instead of having the reader take it for granted ( you know the old method of describing the talk as ' brilliant ' but giving no samples of the conversation ), Chekhov makes him joke in a really attractive, winning way.
" His comedic exchange of quips (" fat pig ") regarding his show ’ s former news reader, Contessa Brewer, made news, as did Brewer's response (" cantankerous old fool ").
Campbell blends accounts of his own upbringing and experience with stories from many cultures and civilizations to present the reader with his most compelling thesis that modern society is going through a transition from the old mythologies and traditions to a new way of thinking where a global mythology will emerge.
Marx understood that the casual reader might mistakenly treat his category as interchangeable with its Ricardian predecessor, and in later editions and the Afterword to the Second German Edition implores readers to pay particular attention to the mediations between that old category and the one his own theory sought to establish.
Since 1999 Luann has been slowly aging from 15 to 16 years old at perhaps the rate of one Luann month per one reader year, though this opposes what Evans has said on his blog.
One reader pointed out that he had seen Isabelle having been 15 years old for more than two years, and thus suspected her of being a pseudonym.
Thus, Bernhard Abeken, who was an avid reader since being five-year old, started reading religious and historical literature.
The aim of the series at the start was: " To interest the general reader in the wild life of Britain by recapturing the inquiring spirit of the old naturalists.
While Lov is talking to Jeeter, the book introduces the reader to sixteen year-old Dude, the youngest of the Lester boys ; Ada, Jeeter ’ s wife ; Grandma Lester ; and Ellie May, an eighteen year old girl with a grotesque cleft lip.
These include The Next Generation's Ro Laren as Security Chief ; an Andorian Science Officer named Thirishar ch ' Thane ( or Shar for short ), through whom the reader is introduced to Andorian culture ; the 100 year old Commander Elias Vaughn, who has a background in intelligence and black ops ( as featured in the TNG / Dominion War crossover novel, Battle of Betazed ), as the station's new Executive Officer ; his daughter Prynn Tenmei as the Defiant's helmswoman ; and Taran ' atar, a Jem ' Hadar observer sent to live on the station by Odo.
He is wholly incapable of devising a plausible intrigue, and shocks the reader with monstrous improbabilities such as all that portion of the denouement in which old Mrs. Brown and her daughter are concerned.
Throughout the agonized internal monologue, represented through letters to his old tutor, he repeatedly comments on all of the affective ties that he has formed in his domestic life —“ the chains heart forged for itself ” As he begins to recover from the shock, the reader is led to believe that these “ chains ” are not worth the price of possible pain —“ By renouncing my attachments to a single spot, I extended them to the whole earth, and, while I ceased to be a citizen, became truly a man .” While in La Nouvelle Héloïse, the ideal is domestic, rural happiness ( if not bliss ), in Emile and its sequel, the ideal is “ emotional self-sufficiency which was the natural state of primitive, pre-social man, but which for modern man can be attained only by the suppression of his natural inclinations .”

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