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.

Lewis later suggested that the experience gave him a new appreciation of children and in late September he began a children's story on an odd sheet of paper which has survived as part of another manuscript:

The comments made by Ruri Hoshino in regards to the story and how the next episode will get back on track with it at the end of the episode along with the fact that the placing of the episode seems odd giving the events in the episodes before and after episode 14. seem to suggest the Nadesico episode being non-canon at the very least.

Lewis later suggested that the experience gave him a new appreciation of children and in late September he began a children's story on an odd sheet which has survived as part of another manuscript:

Time Magazine, in an October 5, 1931 cover story on Carnera before he won the heavyweight title, commented on his odd career.

The story begins with Pel receiving an odd call from his boss, TSR, who quizzes him about extradition treaties ; within a week he has vanished without a trace, and Pel promoted to TSR's former position, " Computer Team Administration, Software Acquisition and Training Manager " ( though, in addition to his own job ).

One of his most unusual films, reuniting him with Dickinson, is The Queen of Spades ( 1949 ), an odd, Gothic thriller based on the Alexander Pushkin short story, in which he co-starred with Edith Evans.

Gildersleeve on Broadway followed, in 1943 ; the story is centered on Leroy as the odd boy out as everyone around him is falling in love.

Tanabe created these " odd " characters ; he was placed in charge of the subevents of the story, and wrote almost all of the character dialog, with the exception of the owl's and the Wind Fish's lines.

The story begins at Los Angeles airport, where Dr. Richard Thorndyke ( Mel Brooks ) has several odd encounters.

Despite his odd story, Mxyzptlk made it through the Crisis on Infinite Earths relatively unchanged, although the unpleasant nature of his pranks and the psychological effects they had on others were played up more, such as when he animated the Daily Planet building heedless of the occupants inside who were being violently thrown around with its movements, at least initially ; he also began smoking cigars.

Featured on the cover of the January 1981 issue of Contemporary Keyboard magazine ( a story that was reprinted in Contemporary Keyboards book on the greatest rock keyboardists ), DeYoung described many of his steps along the way through his keyboard-playing career: He'd never played an acoustic piano until the recording session for 1972's " Lady "; he recorded the track for 1979's " Babe " in a friend's basement on a Rhodes electric piano he'd never touched before ; the odd feeling of switching back to playing accordion for the song " Boat On The River " and discovering how small the keys felt to his fingers after years of playing electric organs and pianos.

The reader must slowly piece together the story and the emotional experience of jealousy, for example, in the repetition of descriptions, the attention to odd details, and the breaks in repetitions, a method that resembles the experience of psychoanalysis in which the deeper unconscious meanings are contained in the flow and disruptions of free associations.

One storyline involved Papa Shango, a " witch doctor ," casting a spell over Warrior, causing him to convulse and vomit in very odd colors, though Warrior says he hated that story and had no control over it.

Artists often differ in the way that they portray Abyss ( in fact his appearance has drastically changed within single story arcs, though no other character seemed to think this was odd ).

Although the series was reasonably successful ( in spite of the odd publication format, which resulted from the BBC having reserved for its own use the rights to publish Doctor Who story collections and Doctor Who books in paperback ), the BBC chose not to renew Telos's licence, and the series ended in March 2004, having completed 15 novellas featuring the Doctor.

Each episode begins with a pre-credits teaser in which an odd incident occurs or a discussion foreshadows the episode's story.

Dora is then escorted away by an odd grey-bearded man in a Victorian-era bathing suit and sailor's cap who was a running gag throughout the cartoon, appearing periodically to interrupt the story by shuffling across the screen to the tune of Ed Haley's " While Strolling Through the Park One Day.

At this point in Dr. Trevelyan ’ s story, Holmes thinks that it would be wise to go to the doctor ’ s Brook Street practice right away to see for himself what this odd case is all about.

Time Magazine, in an October 5, 1931 cover story on Carnera before he won the heavyweight title, commented on his odd career.

Bunter does not appear in this story, which is very odd as it takes place at the moment when Lord Peter's first child is born in October 1936.

The odd chapters tell the 15 year old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister.

Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood of I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide called it " An odd episode [...] that goes on a bit too long and could probably have done with an entertaining B story.

Until December 14, 2007, humorist Kent Jones served as The Rachel Maddow Show's co-host, contributing odd news stories as well as having his own segment, Kent Jones Now !, which aired at the end of each hour and focused on another odd news story.