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.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

It is the gradual unfolding and deepening of this contradiction which creates the inner dialectic of the evolution of the mystery story.

It is the growing contradiction between individualism and public service in the mystery story which creates this fatal dilemma.

And the best way to conceal and disguise the elements of an incest story is not to set out to write an incest story.

`` 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 rocking is actually felt in the story, a terrible and ominous rhythm that prophesies the tragedy.

The rocking, I realized, is the single element in the story that carries the erotic message, the unspoken and unconscious undercurrent that would mar the innocence of a child's fantasy and disturb the effects of the work if it were made explicit.

And when the child dies in Lawrence's story in a delirium that is somehow brought on by his mania to win and to make his mother rich, the manifest absurdity of such a disease and such a death does not enter into our thoughts at all.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

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.

Then he would get to his feet, as though rising in honor of his own remarkable powers, and say almost invariably, `` Gentlemen, this is an amazing story!!

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

Once the scene is set, Trevelyan skilfully builds up the tense story until it reaches its climax in the dramatic victory of Marlborough and Eugene of Savoy at Blenheim.

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.

Beginning in Cloth Of The Tempest ( 1943 ) he experimented in merging poetry and visual art, using drawings to carry long narrative segments of a story, as in Sleepers Awake, and constructing elaborate `` poems-in-drawing-and-type '' in which it is impossible to distinguish between the `` art '' and the poetry.

The story of the fatal crash is not fully known.

The line of an eyebrow, the color of the skin, a ghazal from Hafiz, the purity of spring water, the long afternoon among the boughs which crowd the upper story of a pavilion -- these things are noticed, judged, and valued.

A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".

One story tells that Van Dyck himself discovered Dobson when he noticed one of the young artist's pictures in a London shop window.

Pilot Rank, however, told a different story: Rank said that he was checking on the passengers when he noticed smoke in the middle of the cabin, where Rick Nelson and Helen Blair were sitting.

The fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty has been analyzed by folklorists and other scholars of various types, and many of them have noticed prominent erotic elements of the story.

As the story continued, Nojima focused on making Cloud more mature, hoping it would be noticed by the players.

The story had as its subject an " attractive, well-bred young lady ", a village girl of the country being deceived into giving a wolf she encountered the information he needed to find her grandmother's house successfully and eat the old woman while at the same time avoiding being noticed by woodcutters working in the nearby forest.

In order to play down this unsavoury branch of her family tree, Lacey instead used a story that Karen made up — that pioneers somehow got hold of a hot air balloon, got an aerial view of the town site, and noticed that the creek formed a shape similar to that of a dog's leg.

It is repeatedly noticed throughout the story of her captivity, that Rowlandson relies heavily upon her puritan faith, often quoting bible verses to reinforce her descriptions of a world of dichotomies: punishment and retribution, darkness and light, and good and evil.

The story is about the investigation by the FBI of a bombing of a Western compound in Riyadh, though many have noticed superficial similarities to the ARAMCO compound of Dhahran.

Livingstone also made a few cultural notes about the people living in this area ; he noticed they had a story similar to that of the Tower of Babel, except that the builders ' heads were " cracked by the fall of the scaffolding " ( Missionary Travels, chap.

Singer contributed to the European Yiddish press from 1916 ; and in 1921, after Abe Cahan noticed his story " Pearls ", Singer became a correspondent for the leading American Yiddish newspaper The Forward.

The story runs that after a successful offensive across the Yser River, Edward noticed that his brother wasn't with the regiment.

She was noticed in 1969 when the Guangming Daily published her short story which depicted the plight of a husband and a wife separated during the Cultural Revolution.

The story maintains that upon arrival in the city, the Shah noticed many Sikhs among the inhabitants of the city.

She was first noticed by literary agencies after her short story Private Tutor appeared in the 1997 collection.

Lescovar's hasty cover story doesn't fool Mallory or Barnsby — Barnsby had observed Lescovar's interactions with the German sergeant, who, fatally, salutes him even though Lescovar's uniform made him out to be a corporal ; Mallory had noticed a map showing that their train passes within a half-mile of the dam-a fact Lescovar " neglected " to bring up.

When Uncanny X-Men issues 136 and 137 were in the final artwork stages, Shooter happened to look at the proofs for the issues and noticed that the story included the destruction of an inhabited solar system, with an explicit mention of billions of lives lost, and that it ended with Jean being permanently depowered by the Shi ' ar and released into the custody of the X-Men.

The most recognized story pertains to early settlers whom, upon arriving in the vicinity of the coast, noticed a large ravine emptying into the ocean from a swamp.

Their story came to be noticed by the ATC ( now a part of Veolia Transportation ), a company dedicated to the ground transport of disabled people by using public transportation buses under their name.

Two weeks after the Denver headlines, John Lewis had noticed a large Eastern U. S. newspaper had picked up the story and included information not even in the original story.

Peter doesn't believe her story, however, and responded patronizingly, " Poor old Lu, hiding and nobody noticed.

Beerbohm concludes his narrative by calling down the author of the scholarly article in question for shoddy work ; he notes that T. K Nupton must not have finished reading Beerbohm's story, otherwise he would have noticed Soames's ( through Beerbohm ) flawless predictions about the future and realized the story was not fiction.