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story and is
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.

story and saved
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 popular story of Winston Churchill's father paying for Fleming's education after Fleming's father saved young Winston from death is false.
The second story tells of the Greek poet Arion of Lesbos ( 7th century BC ), who was saved by a dolphin.
In his words, " literally and literarily I was saved " when The Black Cat accepted his story " A Thousand Deaths ," and paid him $ 40 — the " first money I ever received for a story.
A story from Nevers, which is reproduced in the Golden Legend, states that one night Charlemagne dreamed he was about to be killed by a wild boar during a hunt, but was saved by the appearance of a child, who had promised to save the emperor if he would give him clothes to cover his nakedness.
Studios, teaming up with Negaduck ( who she had saved from the Crimebots from " The Duck Knight Returns ") in the story " Crisis on Infinite Darkwings ".
According to variations of the story, the king was saved from being gored by the charging animal when it was startled either by the miraculous appearance of a holy cross descending from the skies, or by sunlight reflected from a crucifix which suddenly appeared between the hart's antlers while the king attempted to grasp them in self-defence.
" In a later interview, this time for the first Trekkies film, Doohan related the story of a young fan who was contemplating suicide ; Doohan says that he convinced her to attend his next convention appearance, and later found out that his encouragement and kind words had not only saved her life, but also inspired her to go back to school and become an Electronics Engineer.
Part one of the story ends in tragedy for Faust, as Gretchen is saved but Faust is left to grieve in shame.
The song tells a true story of an adolescent acquaintance of composer Frank Zappa who habitually saved his own extracted mucus on the pane of his bedroom window.
The Greek historian Herodotus, who tells a similar story, relates that during his visit to the city, the Persians, at that point the suzerains of the country, paid particular attention to the condition of these dams so that the city was saved from the annual flooding.
Most striking among the stories include the countess of Cellant seeking vengeance on one lover by means of others ( part 1, story 4 ), two whores seeking to win their husbands back ( part 1, story 17 ), two brother thieves in cahoots to rob the treasures of the king of Egypt ( part 1, story 23 ), a disdained lover voluntarily choosing to live inside a cave ( part 1, story 25 ), a woman killing herself only out of fear that her good fortune will turn bad ( part 1, story 48 ), Filippo Lippi, released from slavery in Africa because of his talent as a celebrated painter ( part 1, story 50 ), a woman disdaining a man and then killing herself when he no longer pursues her ( part 2, story 16 ), an abbot making music from a chorus of pigs ( part 2, story 23 ), an adulterous lover buried alive and then saved ( part 3, story 1 ), a merchant's murder of another ( part 4, story 1 ), a case of double adultery whereby each husband cuckolds the other ( part 4, story 11 ), and two women yelling at each other after being falsely told they are hard of hearing ( part 4, story 21 ).
His coolness and presence of mind are said to have saved the Spartan state from destruction on the occasion of the great earthquake of 464 BC, but this story must be regarded as at least doubtful.

story and form
Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries, art films, and travelogues, despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama, the movies are at heart a form of fiction, like the play, the novel, or the short story.
The earliest parts of the book are possibly chapters 2 – 11, the story of the conquest ; more certain is that this section was then incorporated into an early form of Joshua that was part of then original Deuteronomistic history, written late in the reign of king Josiah ( reigned 640 – 609 BCE ); it seems clear that the book was not completed until after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly not until after the return from the Babylonian exile late in the 6th century.
This takes the form of a large amount of paperwork, photographs, and attention to and memory of large quantities of detail, some of which is sometimes assembled into the story bible for the production.
The story describes the creation of self-replicating weapons factories designed to destroy the Anabis, a galaxy-spanning malevolent life form bent on destruction of the human race.
Smith's works consist of: a single novel, originally published in two volumes in edited form as The Planet Buyer, also known as The Boy Who Bought Old Earth ( 1964 ) and The Underpeople ( 1968 ), and later restored to its original form as Norstrilia ( 1975 ); and 32 short stories ( collected in The Rediscovery of Man ( 1993 ), including two versions of the short story " War No. 81-Q ").
In the study of mythology the term " myth " refers to a traditional story, often regarded as sacred, which explains how the world and its inhabitants came to have their present form.
* Borgia, by Milo Manara ( artist ) & Alejandro Jodorowsky ( writer ), a comic in the form of serialized graphic novel, depicting the story of the Borgia family.
The story first appeared in written form in Vitruvius ' books of architecture, two centuries after it supposedly took place.
The epistolary form can add greater realism to a story, because it mimics the workings of real life.
While the novel draws on the epistolary form, by the end of the story it reduces it, along with other media, to a monstrous " mass of typewriting ".
* Uncommon Valour ( 2005 ) by John Stevens, the story of two naval officers in 1779, is primarily written in the form of diary and log extracts.
Next, inside this first flashback, the Lady of the title narrates another story, presented in flashback form, but with cutaways inside it back to events occurring in the time frame in which she is doing her narrating.
* An Ordinary Miracle and its remake, a fairy-tale love story about a bear who has been transformed into a man by a wizard, and must be kissed by a princess to return to his original form.
The story of Frigg and Odin's brothers, Vili and Ve, has survived in very brief form.
Felix Salten's Bambi ( 1923 ) is a Bildungsroman — a story of a protagonist's coming-of-age — cast in the form of a fable.
Heart of Darkness is a novella, written by Joseph Conrad, that is presented in the form of a frame narrative ( a story within a story ).
Justin Martyr, in the early 2nd century, mentions the " memoirs of the apostles ", which Christians called " gospels " and which were regarded as on par with the Old Testament, which was written in narrative form where " in the biblical story God is the protagonist, Satan ( or evil people / powers ) are the antagonists, and God ’ s people are the agonists ".
To support his assertion, he relates a story ( excerpted by John of Damascus ) that a pagan commissioned to paint an image of Jesus used the " Zeus " form instead of the " Semitic " form, and that as punishment his hands withered.
* Varshitap: This is a difficult form of fasting and demands a high level of skill and discipline ; it is based on the story of Lord Rishabh not eating or drinking for 400 days.
Scholars of Mesopotamian mythology, however, suggest that Adapa was likely associated with fishing and depicted in half-fish form many centuries before the story of Jonah appeared.
Leda and the Swan is a story and subject in art from Greek mythology in which the god Zeus seduced, or raped, Leda in the form of a swan.
According to many versions of the story, Zeus took the form of a swan and raped or seduced Leda on the same night she slept with her husband King Tyndareus.

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