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story and himself
It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.
A story, no doubt apocryphal, for Mercer himself denies it, has him sporting a monacle in those Village days.
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.
Rieux refers to his story as a chronicle, and he sees himself as an historian, which justifies his decision to stick to the facts and avoid subjectivity.
In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.
Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.
The term is often attributed to Rudolf Erich Raspe's story The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, where the main character pulls himself out of a swamp by his hair ( specifically, his pigtail ), but the Baron does not, in fact, pull himself out by his bootstraps.
However, at the end of the story, he apparently succumbs to the virus himself before he can escape, his physiology being close enough to that of the Daleks for the virus to affect him.
) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.
Montalvo claimed to have discovered sections of a story that he had written himself.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne's book The Scarlet Letter opens with an account of the author himself finding the letter and records which tell the story of Hester Prynne, which is narrated in the rest of the book.
He also wrote an opera based on the Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's gothic story Undine, with de la Motte Fouqué himself writing the libretto.
The " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.
Thompson himself first used the term referring to his own work on page twelve of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: " But what was the story?
Guy ultimately finds his courage when Fred suggests that he think of himself as " the plucky comic relief ", and at the end of the story he is given a permanent role in the Galaxy Quest cast as the starship's Security Chief " Roc " Ingersol ( a reference to his earlier lament that characters without full names are always killed ).
:" A wild story of a journalist who becomes manager of a station in the interior and makes himself worshipped by a tribe of savages.
Horatio attempts to kill himself with the same poisoned wine but is stopped by Hamlet, so he will be the only one left alive to give a full account of the story.
Possibly written by Thomas Kyd or even William Shakespeare himself, the Ur-Hamlet would have been in performance by 1589 and the first version of the story known to incorporate a ghost.
" In the story, a devil is hiding within a pagan idol, and bound by Bartholomew's spiritual powers to acknowledge himself and confess, the devil refers to Jesus as the one which " made war on Hel our queen " ( Old Norse heriaði a Hel drottning vara ).
Reportedly Chandler himself could not answer the question who killed the limousine driver in the story when the baffled screenwriters called him up for final reference.
Digweed DJed as himself in the Greg Harrison's 2000 movie Groove, which tells the story of an all-night rave in San Francisco.
Since Brahms himself clearly originated the story, however, some have questioned Hoffman's theory.
From the perspective of Arthur, perhaps the most significant effect of this great outpouring of new Arthurian story was on the role of the king himself: much of this 12th-century and later Arthurian literature centres less on Arthur himself than on characters such as Lancelot and Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, and Tristan and Isolde.

story and childhood
I am sure that none of the effects of this story were consciously employed by Lawrence to describe an oedipal fantasy in childhood.
He was simply writing a story that wanted to be told, and in the writing a childhood fantasy of his own emerged.
There were thousands of Republican speakers who focused first on the party platform, and second on Lincoln's life story, emphasizing his childhood poverty.
Cardenio relates the first part of his story, in which he falls deeply in love with his childhood friend Luscinda, and is hired as the companion to the Duke's son, leading to his friendship with the Duke's younger son, Don Fernando.
He somehow became crippled, and although Origen recounts a story that his leg was deliberately broken by his master, Simplicius states he had been lame from childhood.
For example, Alvin Sandberg claimed that the short story " The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids " offers " an exploration of impotency, a portrayal of a man retreating to an all-male childhood to avoid confrontation with sexual manhood " from which the narrator engages in " congenial " digressions in heterogeneity.
The Bollywood movie Black ( 2005 ) was largely based on Keller's story, from her childhood to her graduation.
A 1960 story by Jerry Siegel expanded upon Luthor's origin and motivations, revealing him to be a childhood friend of Superman's who lost his hair when a fire destroyed his laboratory ; Luthor vowed revenge.
One childhood story he has told that introduced him to politics was how at the age of 8, he asked his father for a raise in his allowance.
Power and music by Larry Allen, also tells the story of Ní Mháille from childhood to her meeting with Elizabeth I.
The novel covers the years 1945 to 1955, and also provides the back story of Vito Corleone from early childhood to adulthood.
Several Freud scholars have disputed the traditional story that Freud's seduction theory patients reported having been sexually abused in early childhood, the basis on which Masson built his case.
As she is the archetypal mourner in the first portion of the story, so during Horus ' childhood she is the ideal devoted mother.
The distinct segments of the story — Osiris ' death and restoration, Horus ' childhood, and Horus ' conflict with Set — may originally have been independent mythic episodes.
Lorenzo is complete all the way back to his childhood — the influence of his father upon what he thinks is one of the strongest motives in the story — and his growth under pressure is consistent with his character and no-one else's.
He also saw that the prequels could form the beginning of one long story that started with Anakin's childhood and ended with his death.
The story traces the life of David Copperfield from childhood to maturity.
The only true supernatural event in the story occurs as described during one of Jessie's flashbacks, when, during a particularly stressful incident at the time of childhood, she has a waking dream.
* Le Cahier volé (" The Stolen Folder "), short story partly inspired by a childhood spent at the École Saint-Martial de Montmorillon ( Fayard, 1978 )
The story begins with the reminiscences of Leo Colston, an elderly man looking back on his childhood with nostalgia.
One story asserts that he had spent a part of his childhood in captivity in Bulgaria, where his family had, allegedly, been carried off as captives of the Khan Krum ( r. 803 – 814 ) in 813.
There it serves as a comparison to the protagonist of the short story " Lend me your Light ", who is torn between his childhood home in Bombay and his new existence in Toronto: " I, Tiresias ,/ Blind and throbbing between two lives ..." ( Tales from Firozsha Baag: 180 ).
In another scene, Elvira returns to the orphanage where she was raised by nuns and hears the brutal story of her childhood.
James's most famous novella is The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story in which the question of childhood corruption obsesses a governess.

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