Personally, I don't blame him for giving up the dive, much as I regret losing the story ''.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

`` The Rocking Horse Winner '' is also a story about a boy's love for his mother.

It is the story of the hopeless love of a little boy for his cold and vain mother.

The story ends in the child's illness and delirium brought on by the feverish compulsion to ride his horse to win for his mother.

We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.

An ivory tablet in the infant's cask recounts the story of his sinful origins and is preserved for the child by the monks of a monastery in the fishing village.

`` Mr. Miller was in the shop '', the Herald Tribune story related, `` but was reluctant to have anybody's picture taken inside, because his business was too ' confidential ' for pictures.

A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.

The Hetman had a strong liking for a story, any story which was to be had by means of much sleuthing or by roundabout methods.

In the story of Bright and the Corn Law agitation, the Crimean War, the American Civil War, and the franchise struggle Trevelyan reflects something of the moral power which enabled this independent man to exercise so immense an influence over his fellow countrymen for so long.

Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

There is, of course, nothing new about dystopias, for they belong to a literary tradition which, including also the closely related satiric utopias, stretches from at least as far back as the eighteenth century and Swift's Gulliver's Travels to the twentieth century and Zamiatin's We, Capek's War With The Newts, Huxley's Brave New World, E. M. Forster's `` The Machine Stops '', C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and which in science fiction is represented before the present deluge as early as Wells's trilogy, The Time Machine, `` A Story Of The Days To Come '', and When The Sleeper Wakes, and as recently as Jack Williamson's `` With Folded Hands '' ( 1947 ), the classic story of men replaced by their own robots.

The story opens on the eve of his fifty-third birthday, as he prepares for the two weeks of festivities that are to follow.

These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.

The woman in the house where the niece was staying backed up his story and said she left when he did to shop for her dinner.

There is a humorous but revealing story about a rancher who owned a large slice of Texas and who wanted to have on it everything that was necessary for a completely pleasant community.

Now time is also the concern of the fictional narrative, which is, at its simplest, the story of an action with, usually, a beginning, a middle, and an end -- elements which demand time as the first condition for their existence.

Finding peaceful coexistence temporarily unsuitable because of domestic politics, Moscow resumed scowling and `` Smilin' Mike '' dropped quietly out of the press except for an occasional story reporting that he had been stoned somewhere in the Middle West.

But because it was a suspense gangster story of the Capone era, many of us felt that it might catch on for a run in Chicago, continue as a road company, and eventually become a movie.

Hendricks' story was designed for children and he had a small audience of small children right on stage with him.

It's the old story, war or no war, and more than one viewer may recall Hollywood's `` Titanic '', several seasons back, when the paramount concern was for the marital discord of a society dilettante.

" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.

The story takes place about 2015 AD, against a background of an overpopulated Earth, whose dysfunctional society is clearly an attempt to extrapolate into the future the rapid social changes taking place in the U. S. during the 1960s.

In 2006, the college was again featured prominently in a Today Show story about the rapid growth of Christian colleges and universities.

The serialisation ran in the Daily Express from 5 December 1955 to 20 December 1955, although Kneale was forced to draw it to a rapid conclusion when the paper lost interest in the project and instructed him to complete the story as soon as possible.

Filmed over two years by Jane Beckwith and Mandy Wragg, and presented by Sarah Beeny, it showed the rapid development of the project, along with the individual story of Tim Nicol, the ' Village Champion ' who moved to live in Tideswell for a year and helped the volunteer directors get Taste Tideswell off the ground.

Several story arcs revolve around the political conflict surrounding rapid technological change.

This may have also been the cause for the rapid removal of the story from the U. S. edition, and some sources state that the publishers believed the story was too scandalous for the American public.

These attacks have produced the broadest, deepest and most rapid reduction in al-Qaida senior leadership that we've seen in several years ."< ref > U. S. Officials: Al-Qaida Leadership Cadre ' Decimated ' by Tom Gjelten, February 14, 2008 < http :// www. npr. org / templates / story / story. php? storyId = 100160836 ></ ref > President Obama's CIA Director Leon Panetta stated that SAD / SOG's efforts in Pakistan have been " the most effective weapon " against senior al-Qaeda leadership.

The story explores the disintegration of a marriage between Marianne, a lawyer, and Johan, a professor ( played respectively by Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson ) over a long period, using a restricted cast, a naturalist, hyper-realistic cinematic style, claustrophobic close-ups, and strings of rapid, articulate monologues.

The story is set the 21st century where the rapid evolution of robot technology makes it possible to use them as nurses in hospitals.

It also hints that the " Mallows " are a " Lancers " regiment and that Barclay owned most of his rapid rise in ranks from Sergeant to Officer due in part to his marriage to the daughter of the colour sergeant-rather than merit as Murphy was already a young sub-officer at the time Barclay was a Sgt ; at the time of the story Murphy is still only a major in " temporary " command of the Regiment.

In the story the knight and priest exchange rapid fire and simple dialogue designed to reach a broad audience.

Buildings erected for retail walk-in traffic typically included second story apartments, to maximize the benefits of urbanization and rapid population growth.

* Cecil Law, Kamp Westerbork, transit camp to eternity: the liberation story.

In the story of the game, Mr. Burns has bought all transit systems in Springfield and has begun to create radioactive buses that threaten the public health.

The story is told from the point of view of a human historian on a star ship on the way to Alpha Centauri ( the aliens ' home star ) who is using the time in transit to translate two alien books and to write a history of how humans gained access to the alien's knowledge.

A science fiction short story published in 1971 by Sir Arthur C. Clarke, called " Transit of Earth ", depicts a doomed astronaut on Mars observing the transit in 1984.

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

One of the entrances to the Cleeves Cove cave system ; the ' Elf Hame ' of the Bessie Dunlop story.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

The stories were typically descriptive, not narrative, and included vignettes and exposés, showing for instance the renovation of a trolley system, the organization of farmers into communes, and the trial of Social Revolutionaries ; one story shows starvation in the nascent Communist state.

The ancient Egyptians had a thoroughly developed system for the acquisition of intelligence, and the Hebrews used spies as well, as in the story of Rahab.

On 18 March, Friese-Greene sent a clipping of the story to Thomas Edison, whose laboratory had been developing a motion picture system known as the Kinetoscope.

This melding of scientific and social speculation is clearly present in the novel Voyage from Yesteryear ( strongly influenced by Eric Frank Russell's famous story " And Then There Were None ") about a high-tech anarchist society in the Alpha Centauri system, a starship sent from Earth by a dictatorial government, and the events following their first contact.

Remarkably, this story of a hunter pursuing a Murray cod that carved out the Murray persists in numerous forms in various language groups that inhabit the enormous area spanned by the Murray system.

Mecha appear in the game as a prominent part of the story line and part of the game's innovative combat system as well as a mini-game fighting arena.

Lyotard argues that, rather than relying on an objective truth or method to prove their claims, philosophers legitimize their truths by reference to a story about the world which is inseparable from the age and system the stories belong to, referred to by Lyotard as meta-narratives.

By the end of the story, rebels have established themselves at another stellar system — where their descendants, the reader is told, would eventually build a liberating fleet and set out back to Earth.

Heinlein's first novel, For Us, The Living ( written 1939 ), consists largely of speeches advocating the Social Credit system, and the early story " Misfit " ( 1939 ) deals with an organization that seems to be Franklin D. Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps translated into outer space.

( Chapter 24. 33 ) The institution of the Magna Carta which happens outside the timeframe of the story, is portrayed as a progressive ( incremental ) reform, but also as a step toward recovery of a lost golden age of liberty endemic to England and the English system.

It was designed with the rules of the Fudge universal role-playing system in mind but added modifications necessary to get rid of the need for a gamemaster, distributing the responsibility for the game and story equally among all players and undoing the equivalence between player and character.

* The 1992 film The Lawnmower Man ( which bore little resemblance to the Stephen King story on which it was ostensibly based ) tells the tale of a research scientist who uses a VR system to jumpstart the mental and physical development of his mentally handicapped gardener.

The story of the origination and expansion of the CODEN system provides a good case example in a recent-decades, technical-nomenclature context.

More certainly, the short story is the first in science fiction to describe microscopic medical machines and to treat DNA as a computational system capable of being reprogrammed ; that is, expanded and modified.

The Countdown also compliments the deep light saber and Force combat system, a story that is consistent with the movies as well as cameos from virtually all the key Star Wars characters.

* In the Cosmic Era works, Gundams are mobile suits that carry a specific type of operating system, first secretly produced ( without the programmer himself knowing what he is programming the system for ) by the one of the protagonist's robotics research group, and faced a few upgrades by various factions throughout the story.

Science fiction has often featured planets of binary or ternary stars as a setting, for example George Lucas ' Tatooine from Star Wars, and one notable story, Nightfall, even takes this to a six-star system.

For example, if one wished to remember the list ( dog, envelope, thirteen, yarn, window ), one could create a link system, such as a story about a " dog stuck in an envelope, mailed to an unlucky black cat playing with yarn by the window ".

Tarot cards depict a system of archetypes used for divination of a persons ' fate or story.

The elaborate " Passing of the Veils " ceremony is essential to the Royal Arch Degree in the Irish system and after it is completed it is followed immediately by the Royal Arch degree itself, containing the story of the restoration of Solomon's Temple under King Josiah.

Specifically, Brunvand argued that the Petruchio / Katherina story represents a subtype of Type 901 (' Shrew-taming Complex ') in the Aarne – Thompson classification system.