The story's political impact declined with the Union of Brittany and France in 1532, and it thereafter declined in popularity.

One of the six students is the story's narrator, Richard Papen, who reflects, years later, on the situation that led to a murder within the group, the murder being confessed at the outset of the novel but the events otherwise revealed sequentially.

The story's title reflects the story's other main irony, the rivalry between Murilo and Nabonidus.

The Fighting Fantasy gamebooks were created by British writers Steve Jackson ( not to be confused with the US-based game designer of the same name ) and Ian Livingstone, co-founders of Games Workshop, and provide an original twist on traditional fiction in that the reader takes control of the story's protagonist, being required to make choices that will affect the outcome.

The church avoids mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story's confidentiality, including legal action on the grounds of copyright and trade secrecy.

Stowe sometimes changed the story's voice so she could give a " homily " on the destructive nature of slavery ( such as when a white woman on the steamboat carrying Tom further south states, " The most dreadful part of slavery, to my mind, is its outrages of feelings and affections — the separating of families, for example .").

Giordano said he worked on the story's plot with Miller, he commented, " The version that was finally done was about his fourth or fifth draft.

Mutant Enemy approved the story, even though IDW did not have rights to a Buffy-only character like Halfrek, because of her importance to Spike's backstory, on the condition that the story's timing was deliberately ambiguous.

" The scene was considered unproductive to the story's progression by head editor William H. Ziegler and ultimately ended up on the cutting room floor.

However, in this version he is not the story's villain, but merely a harmless man who becomes an increasingly paranoid victim of Holmes ' delusions, based on the fact that Moriarty indirectly contributed to the death of Holmes ' mother as her lover.

Meyer wrote the story's middle portion, taking place on 20th-century Earth, and Bennett handled the ending.

Professor Bill Reynolds: The story's narrator, who is writing a thesis on fame.

Croup and Vandemar, the story's two major antagonists, dump the body of the Marquis de Carabas in the river, and lament on how the people above will never get to see the craftsmanship of the tunnel that was built over it.

He also depicted the plot as focused on " major impurity ", summarizing the story's references to necrophilia, menstrual fetish and ephebophilia.

In Harry Harrison's 1965 novel Bill, the Galactic Hero, the story's hero, Bill, serves on the warship Christine Keeler.

In later books Zuckerman is given a less indentured form of existence, starting with the 1979 novel The Ghost Writer, where he is the story's protagonist, a writing apprentice on a pilgrimage to cull the wisdom of the reclusive author E. I. Lonoff.

One rumor suggests that the king was recognized because his face appeared on French assignats, though this story's validity is contested.

The story's name is taken from a line in the Frank O ' Hara's poem " Ode to Necrophilia ", and was inspired by a newspaper article Gowdy read about a young California woman who hijacked a hearse on its way to a funeral, took the corpse of the young man inside the coffin to a motel room and had sex with it for several days before being caught by the police.

The most famous exposition of the theory is in Oscar Wilde's short story " The Portrait of Mr. W. H .," in which Wilde, or rather the story's narrator, describes the puns on " will " and " hues " in the sonnets, ( notably Sonnet 20 among others ), and argues that they were written to a seductive young actor named Willie Hughes who played female roles in Shakespeare's plays.

Ohkawa designs many of the characters early in the story's development ; frequently appearing guest characters are designed from the beginning whereas minor characters are designed early on.

In 2002, Abagnale himself addressed the issue of his story's truthfulness rather vaguely with a statement posted on his company's website.

In a dark webcomic called " Everafter ," the Big Bad Wolf is the name given to a sentient and polymorphous mass of " Grimm " energy that roams the island on which the story's asylum is built — aptly so because of the creature's notable likeness to a gigantic black wolf, which can morph into a whole pack of identical wolves.

Several of the story's occurrences and places were derived from Peter Gabriel's dreams, and the protagonist's name is a play on his surname.

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The film opens with the song " Trick or Treat for Halloween ," the lyrics of which tell the story's lesson – one must be generous on Halloween or face trouble.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix and their final days in Deva ( Chester ) in the early 400's AD form the backdrop to the Tom Stevens mythic-fiction genre novel ' The Cauldron ' ( special edition ) with the story's protagonist Valerian-the Praefectus and Chief Centurion defending the city with the rump of the legion against the incursions of Hibernian pirates as the ' Dark Ages ' settle on Britannia

In this view, a story's scientific " hardness " is less a matter of the absolute accuracy of the science content than of the rigor and consistency with which the various ideas and possibilities are worked out.

" This particular line of criticism also misses the obvious parallels that existed between the story's background ( England conquered by the Normans in 1066, when they killed Saxon King Harold at Hastings, about 130 years previously ) and the prevailing situation in Scott's native Scotland ( Scotland's union with England in 1707 – about the same length of time had elapsed before Scott's writing and the resurgence in his time of Scottish nationalism evidenced by the cult of Robert Burns, the famous poet who deliberately chose to work in Scots vernacular though he was an educated man and spoke modern English eloquently ).

Prior to the story's beginning Rick Deckard owned a real sheep, but it died of tetanus, and he replaced it with an electric one.

As with all folklore and mythology, the designation suggests nothing about the story's veracity, but merely that it is in circulation, exhibits variation over time, and carries some significance that motivates the community in preserving and propagating it.

The story's themes of Eastern mysticism and war-weariness struck a chord with readers as World War II waned.

Branscombe ( 2006 ) mitigates the story's implications with a different translation of the German word " gewaltig ", rendering it as " very many " rather than " too many ".

Other times, a historical event is used to complement a story's narrative, occurring in the background while characters deal with situations ( personal or otherwise ) wholly unrelated to that historical event.

In 2008, although he was reluctant to perform in an animated film, Hoffman had a prominent role as Shifu in the acclaimed film Kung Fu Panda, which was praised in part for his comedic chemistry with Jack Black ( whom he tutored in acting for an important scene ) and his character's poignantly complex relationship with the story's villain.

Ball felt that Mendes liked to look under the story's surface, a talent he felt would be a good fit with the themes of American Beauty.

In the story's first half, Meursault is an unperceptive man, existing only via sensory experience ( the funeral procession, swimming in the sea, sleeping with his girlfriend ).

The story's Italian language is peppered with Florentine dialect features, such as the protagonist's Florentine name.

In issue # 94 of the Looney Tunes comic, Bugs Bunny gets his back at Daffy Duck by making him the victim, in switching various movie roles, from Duck Twacy in Who Killed Daffy Duck ," a video game character, and a talk show host, and they always wound up with Daffy starring in Moby Dick ( the story's running gag ).

Spielberg's characteristic theme of communication is partnered with the ideal of mutual understanding: he has suggested that the story's central alien-human friendship is an analogy for how real-world adversaries can learn to overcome their differences.

The story boldly implies that it was this early meeting with a Terran that led Jor-El to study other worlds, and eventually choose Earth as the target for his son's spacecraft ; at the story's end, Jack gives Jor-El a device with the coordinates and images of Earth.

The story has been the subject of two film adaptations, 1990's Total Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the story's protagonist ; and 2012's same-titled remake with Colin Farrell in the same role.

Wertham, author of the influential study Seduction of the Innocent, cited a particular panel of the story's dope-dealing narrator about to be stabbed in the eye with a hypodermic needle as an example of the " injury-to-the-eye " motif.

The story's technique still seems somewhat inexpert, with passages of local color description occasionally interrupting the flow of the narrative.

Sidney Rosenzweig argues that Curtiz did have his own distinctive style, which was in place by the time of his move to America: " high crane shots to establish a story's environment ; unusual camera angles and complex compositions in which characters are often framed by physical objects ; much camera movement ; subjective shots, in which the camera becomes the character's eye ; and high contrast lighting with pools of shadows ".

The love interest of the story's main character, Tuxedo Mask, gets a piece of Nehelenia's mirror shard stuck in his eye, and subsequently forgets about his love for Sailor Moon and surrounds himself with mirrors-the same happens to other people around.