... lived their entire lives on the starships, raised theirfamilies there, and never set foot outside their own Enclave duringtheir landings on Earth. They grew to despise Earthers, and the Earthers ... When theyreturned, their friends and relatives had aged enormously in com-parison, old customs had changed, even the language wasdifferent.So they did the only thing they could do. They formed ... strand snapped. Then another. At last I had enough use ofmy hand to reach out and grasp the blaster. Then I pulled myself across the floor to Ledman, removed the tanglegun, and melted the remainingtangle-cord...
... that the emotions are the province of folly. Indeed, this is the way we distinguish the wise man from the fool, that the one is governed by his reason, the other by his emotions . . . Yet these ... certain aspects of other people ’ s behavior. They saw that Fiction as Dream 17 (The literal teaches what happened; The allegorical what to believe; The moral what to do; The anagogical where ... mathematics. Straight lines and circles do not exist in the physical world, but now they have been invented we cannot do without them. They are abstract. They exist in model worlds. But in the...
... clenched themselves into fists, and heforced them to relax, open out. Slowly, carefully, helay his open hands palm down on the table. The voices fell silent around the table as the otherswaited ... the heat of the station would have melted the complex straightthrough the surface.If this station held together long enough to sink,Larry reminded himself, staring at the sadwreckage on the ... of the dome. The design psychologists had protestedvehemently against building again in view of the first two disastrous attempts, but there had been noreal choice in the matter. Both of the...
... political theme. The most obvious of theseis the dynamic of the thriller, which leaves Grace’s fate unclear until the 18 The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Fiction, 1950–2000focus is the ... rebound on the perpetrator. The Sidney family, who have suffered the The State and the Novel 15who feels the British, lacking ‘literature, culture, language and manners’,flatter themselves as the liberators ... verdict on the possibilities of ‘ordinary’ life. The setting is the key to this. The tribulations of the four main protago-nists in love and career are set against the backdrop of the threat...
... future.” Then he would hold up athumb and forefinger about half an inch apart and say, “This is all the otherkinds of fiction. ”All the other kinds of fiction restrict themselves to the here-and-now, ... belongs to you; the goo and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse andsorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so thatyou can give that to people, then you are a ... and they think theyknow what the inside of a jail looks like.But what does the reader know of the ammonia seas of Titan, the largestmoon of the planet Saturn? How can a reader visualize the...
... Status Chain The (planet) they the (surface) the (planet) the (spaceship) the (clouds) the (middle) the (astronauts) their the (door) the (ladder) the (planet) the (woman) her ... 36 The spaceship The planet They There The spaceship The two astronauts The woman It She We It Both of them They All plants and Animals They They Everything The man ... (planet) the (woman) her (arm) It she the (man) we the (air) It them their they the (plants) they they their the (man) the (controls) he I the (engines) he 1. planet 3. planet...
... all the aspects of the structure and the operation of the firm. The strategic investor puts at the disposal of the firm proprietary software developed by it and specifically tailored to the ... and control systems to monitor the performance of the firm, its flow of funds, the adherence to the budget, the expenditures, the income, the cost of sales and other budgetary items.3. To timely, ... integrate into the systems of other members of the group of companies.10. Otherwise, to initiate and engage in all manner of activities, whether financial or of other nature, conducive to the financial...
... enables them to exert their wills over against the wills ofothers who oppose them. Social power - another phrase for the attainmentof happiness - is predicated on the internalization of the juridical ... forces. So too the novelists seek to bring order into the conflicting urges of the self by plotting their characters on the matrix of the law. The discipline of the law, then, seems ... 21with thefiction that the wisdom of the ages still shapes contemporaryevents even as it preserves ancient rights and liberties. In the words of SirMatthew Hale, writing in the second half of the...
... forces. So too the novelists seek to bring order into the conflicting urges of the self by plotting their characters on the matrix of the law. The discipline of the law, then, seems ... enables them to exert their wills over against the wills ofothers who oppose them. Social power - another phrase for the attainmentof happiness - is predicated on the internalization of the juridical ... sense that the more things change the morethey remain the same.42 If, however, it serves the ideological function ofempowering the subject to act in the present moment, if it provides the individual...
... of the current lot. True, the crisis - the result of a speculative bubble - concerned the banking and real estate markets rather than the capital markets. But the similarities are there. The ... affected them disproportionately.Interest rate volatility created a mismatch between the assets of these associations and their liabilities. The negative spread between their cost of funds and the ... money as time passes. But they convince themselves that they can outwit the organizers of the pyramid, that their withdrawals of profits or interest payments prior to the inevitable collapse...