But then, through a strange coincidence, Maxwell manages to acquire Idal, a female otter, and the fascinating story starts once more.

Once you get past the wrappings, there's another story here, a gimlet-eyed view of the underside of LA's dreamworld of sun, freedom and new starts.

The story starts with the narration, by Tristram, of his own conception.

Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist also starts with a story about Narcissus, found ( we are told ) by the alchemist in a book brought by someone in the caravan.

" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.

Ryan's story starts in Patriot Games and continues in Red Rabbit.

The comic starts with an all-new story, " Opposites Attack ", which is officially set before Web of Spider-Man # 75.

It starts as a tale of anthropomorphic characters " simply messing about in boats " but develops into a more complex story combining elements of mysticism with adventure and reflection on Edwardian Society.

The Osco story starts long before the first Osco was opened.

Beth, thirteen when the story starts, is described as shy, gentle and musical.

The lover starts to open the door and ... the story ends abruptly there.

Luke apparently changed the setting of the story: whereas Mark placed it in a desert, Luke starts the story in " a town

* The attic door and the third story: The longest one, it starts with Merrill finding out about the not-boarded attic door.

The story starts with Scrooge planning to participate in an auction for an old South African gold mine.

He starts off the chapter by saying " I feel it right to warn the reader that he can very well skip this chapter without losing the thread of the story as I have to tell, since for most part it is nothing more than the account of a conversation that I had with Larry.

The first story arc of the relaunched series, titled Superman and the Men of Steel for the collected edition, begins very early in Superman's career as he starts making a name for himself as a champion of the oppressed in Metropolis.

The story centers on Hanni, a precocious fourteen-year-old schoolgirl who starts a relationship with Franz, a nineteen-year-old worker in a chicken processing plant.

The TV show typically included a segment in which Gobel appeared with a guitar, started to sing, then got sidetracked into a story, with the song always left unfinished after fitful starts and stops, a comedy approach that prefigured the Smothers Brothers.

One of them starts with a sentence and then the other continues until the story becomes sexually explicit, and it provides an opportunity for the partners to express their sexual fantasies.

Tess confronts Katharine and starts to tell her side of the story.

" They comment that this ending brought Jim full circle, as he starts and finishes the story in bed in a deserted hospital.

Spielberg explained, " I wanted to make Close Encounters a very accessible story about the everyday individual who has a sighting that overturns his life, and throws it in to complete upheaval as he starts to become more and more obsessed with this experience.

The traditional Phillips curve story starts with a wage Phillips Curve, of the sort described by A. W.

The story of A Christmas Carol starts on Christmas Eve in 1843, with Scrooge at his place of business.

But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.

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.

and, `` I do think that families are the most beautiful things in all the world '', burst out Jo some five hundred pages later in that popular story of the March family, which had first appeared when Henrietta was eight ; ;

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.

Usually, this was done when attention was diverted by someone else's long, boring story.

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 are things about me that I can't tell you now, Mary Jane '', I said, `` but if you'll go out to dinner with me when I get out of Hanover, I'd like to tell you the whole story.

To Rickards, a 52-year-old veteran 30 years in the air, it was an old story: His plane was being hijacked in mid-flight again much as it had happened in 1930, when Peruvian rebels made him land a Ford tri-motor at Arequipa.

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.

`` I heard a story once about a rookie who got excited when the captain stepped outside and he couldn't get an encephalographic reading on him.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Later in the novel, when Tarrou tells Rieux the story of his life, he adds a new dimension to the term ” plague .“ He views it not just as a specific disease or simply as the presence of an impersonal evil external to humans.

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

Athenaeus tells a story of how Agamemnon mourned the loss of his friend Argynnus, when he drowned in the Cephisus river.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury records a story that when the new sheriff of Worcester, Urse d ' Abetot, encroached on the cemetery of the cathedral chapter for Worcester Cathedral, Ealdred pronounced a rhyming curse on him, saying " Thou are called Urse.

Alfonso XIII appears as " King Buby " in Luis Coloma's story of Ratoncito Pérez ( 1894 ), which was written for the King when he was 8 years old.

They are heard of in the time of Alexander, when some of the king's biographers make mention of Amazon Queen Thalestris visiting him and becoming a mother by him ( the story is known from the Alexander Romance ).

A story is preserved that once when he was a child, his father took him to the Kaaba, and asked him to pray before the idols.