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	The Marsh Agency - Rights information
		Far from jarring, these insertions create a rich cultural pastiche encapsulating the passing of time and the links between generations...In both form and content, this stunning debut novel imitates life in all its fragmentary continuity, toeing the line between heartbreaking devastation and the glimmering potential for redemption.'
		DT: O.K. Your d�but novel, which will be published next year, is a continuation of the story we published.
		The novel weaves in and out of different voices and centuries, incorporating genres such as the letter, the play and the encyclopedia entry.
	www.marsh-agency.co.uk /rights.asp?title=EVILLF

	The Manila Times Internet Edition WEEKEND > A Filipino novel in English
		The pessimism of the novel is mitigated by the fortitude and honesty of the Eduarte and Herrera families, whose ancestors fought during the 1896 revolution and the Philippine-American war depicted in Passing Season.
		Grajo Uranza hues to the tradition of social realism in two of her three novels (Bamboo in the Wind and Feast of the Innocents), and gives us a historical novel in A Passing Season so that the roots of the two principal families in the two other novels are clearly shown.
		The novel tells us that while there was what has been called a revolution at EDSA, nothing has changed; that the repression and terror that characterized the dictatorship continues—presided over in the novel by a sinister and malevolent colonel.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/mar/14/yehey/weekend/20040314wek3.html (1177 words)

	benhr10.txt
		At the end of long journeys with caravans, after years of residence with the Bedawin, the Western-born, wherever they may be, will stop and wait the passing of the stately brute.
		And yesterday the caravan passing from Damascus to Arabia and Lower Egypt arrived.
		She found herself at the edge of an assemblage that could not be other than a matter of curiosity to her, although it was common enough at the khans on any of the highways which the great caravans were accustomed to traverse.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext00/benhr10.txt (1177 words)

	Choke
		In electrical engineering and electronics, a choke or choking coil is low-resistance inductor used to block alternating current while passing direct current.
		Choke is the name of a novel by Chuck Palahniuk; see Choke (novel).
		A choke in a firearm is a restriction or narrowing of the barrel.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/choke.html (248 words)

	Greg Bear: Hegira - an infinity plus review
		Second, the short (and this is a short novel, not one of your sprawling thousand-pagers) Borgesian meditation on the nature of the text and the meaning of life.
		This early novel (the first one he sold in fact) by Greg Bear, published in 1979, revised by the author in 1987 and now reissued by Millennium, is set in a world which at first seems technologically and socially mediaeval.
		Barthel becomes more Bar-Woten's son than his servant; indeed, not long into the novel he is set free and decides to follow Bar-Woten of his own free will (this not unheard-of plot device surely has political implications, but I won't explore them here).
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/hegira.htm (248 words)

	ROSSETTI DANTE GABRIEL term papers, research papers on ROSSETTI DANTE GABRIEL and essays at AcaDemon
		The paper explains that Dante& "Inferno" can be more accurately described as a story about a man who finds his way to God with the help of another man, but only after passing through hell.
		"The Inferno, Canto 12" by Alighieri Dante, 2002.
		The paper states that in Dante& "Inferno" the personality characteristics of Dante and Virgil and their relationship is extremely important to the context of the story.
	www.academon.com /lib/essay/rossetti-dante-gabriel.html (3048 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of The English Novel, by George Saintsbury.
		That a novel could enter into competition with either or both, as an interesting and even exciting means of passing the time, would have entered very few heads at all and have been contemptuously dismissed from most of those that it did enter.
		It is certainly, with Rasselas, the most remarkable example, in English, of a novel which is to a great extent deprived of the agrémens to which we have for some two centuries been accustomed in the kind, and, to a still greater, loaded with others which do not appeal to us.
		Yet further, the most adequate and intelligent appreciation of his novel work itself has too often been mainly confined to what is no doubt a subject of exceeding interest—the special means by which he secures the attention, and procures the delight, of his readers.
	www.gutenberg.net /1/4/4/6/14469/14469-h/14469-h.htm (17897 words)

	Graham Joyce The Limits of Enchantment Reviewed By Rick Kleffel
		Joyce writes the kind of novel that readers can and should take very slowly, though the temptation will be to read it in a single sitting.
		The tone of the novel shifts naturally, entertainingly, as Fern and Mammy realize the limits of their lives.
		The passing of wisdom is quite uncommon in ours, and few are those who can do so with the eloquence, the grace and the power of Graham Joyce.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2004/joyce-limits_enchantment.htm (868 words)

	Indifferent Traveler Gets Dragged Into a Clash in the Congo / Novel's narrator follows his activist lover into turmoil
		The novel is set in Africa, as was Greene's ``The Heart of the Matter,'' and the plot bears a passing resemblance to ``The Comedians.'' Like many of Greene's most effective narrators, Gillespie is a writer, and Bennett's Irishness makes him an outsider among the English in much the way Greene's Catholicism did.
		Novel's narrator follows his activist lover into turmoil
		Less obvious to some readers are the similarities between the turmoil in the Congo and the conflict in Gillespie's (and Belfast- born Bennett's) native Northern Ireland.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/07/RV14115.DTL (857 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: After Life
		Like McCracken, Ellis has written an original, richly imagined novel.
		The novel holds the reader captive from the beginning: "First, I had to get his body into the boat.
		Then she falls in love with Peter Morton, a young graduate student passing through town, who forever changes Naomi's life in ways she could never have foreseen.
	www.bookpage.com /0007bp/fiction/after_life.html (857 words)

	Amazon.com: Olympos: Books
		As readers of Ilium will know, the novel is set in a future where "post-humans" have transformed themselves into the Greek gods and are playing out the Trojan war with a human population they seem to have created from remnant DNA in what turns out to be an alternate universe.
		Much of the novel, in fact, focuses on Harman, one of the wiser and more learned humans, and his cadre of friends who are trying save themselves and the rest of the human population from obliteration.
		But in the previous novel the Trojan war suddenly no longer follows its due course as laid out in the Illiad because of the meddling of one, Thomas Hockenberry, a 20th century classics professor whose DNA has been recombined by the post-humans so he can follow the war and report on its progress to them.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0380978946?v=glance (2668 words)

	Patent 4004236: Programmable bandpass digital filter of analog signal
		A novel circuit combination comprised of small scale integrated (SSI) and medium scale integrated (MSI) integrated circuits (IC) for the filtering and passing of a selected pass band of passable frequencies and of a selected amplitude is disclosed.
		The first binary signal is ANDed with the binary digital signal for gating out the binary digital signal to user equipment, while, alternatively, the second binary signal inhibits the gating of the binary digital signal to user equipment.
		In this second embodiment, counter-comparator 30a includes a single binary counter 30-1 which is, in turn, coupled in parallel to K upper band edge detectors 30-3.sub.1 through 30-3.sub.k and to K lower band edge detectors 30-2.sub.1 through 30-2.sub.k.
	www.freepatentsonline.com /4004236.html (2668 words)

	Amazon.com: The Full Matilda : A Novel: Books: David Haynes
		David Haynes' latest novel, The Full Matilda, focuses on the memoirs of a tough and feisty fictional character, Matilda Housewright, who was born during the early years of the last century, and grew up in Washington, D.C. in the home of a head steward or majordomo to a US Senator.
		The story is recounted through the voice of Matilda as well as various male members of her family passing from one generation to the next.
		Alternating between the first-person accounts of Matilda and her brother and the third-person perspectives of Martin's sons, this vibrant family portrait tracks the rise of the Housewrights to a multimillion-dollar food distribution company.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767915690?v=glance (1566 words)

	Putting to Rest the Matilda Newport Myth - Part 2
		In passing on this tradition, the ‘Griot’ acted as if truth is woven within every treasured word of myth, fable, etc., that’s how this story was passed on from generation to generation.
		Recounts of Matilda Newport’s heroism tell diverse versions of a story that say that Matilda outwitted her enemy and/or captors, using a coal from her pipe to detonate a cannon to decimate the Dey warriors.
		Later, Ralph Newport married Matilda Spencer when her husband Thomas Spencer was killed in one of the battles, which took place in 1822.
	www.theperspective.org /2004/jan/matildanewportmyth.htm (2027 words)

	LRB Michael Wood : Post-Paranoid
		Throughout the novel, in a series of cross-referenced moments, the ball reappears, a collector's item passing through various hands, coveted mainly, it seems, for the least obvious of reasons.
		The novels are full of concrete details, data, brand names, place names, slang, objects, furniture, roads and cars, and the characters talk as if they are supposed to be imitations of people who could be met outside fiction.
		But where Pynchon's novel is a long, looping farewell to the idea of conspiracy, almost to the idea of narrative, DeLillo's explores conspiracy's legacy or, more precisely, a world bereft of conspiracy, in mourning for the scary, constricting sense the old secrets used to make.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v20/n03/print/wood01_.html (2681 words)

	A poetic novel is haunted by the Haiti of today and yesterday
		Danticat's powerful novel is a searing portrait of the country she left at age 12 for the United States, but has returned to frequently in the passing years.
		At the novel's center is an enforcer/torturer in the repressive regime of "Papa Doc" Duvalier, a "dew breaker" in Creole parlance, the equivalent of a "ball breaker" in English.
		Her fourth novel is a serious-minded work of a mature talent, a searching examination of murderous terror and its lingering aftershocks on generations.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /books/164355_book12.html (762 words)

	LRB Michael Wood : Post-Paranoid
		Throughout the novel, in a series of cross-referenced moments, the ball reappears, a collector's item passing through various hands, coveted mainly, it seems, for the least obvious of reasons.
		The novels are full of concrete details, data, brand names, place names, slang, objects, furniture, roads and cars, and the characters talk as if they are supposed to be imitations of people who could be met outside fiction.
		But where Pynchon's novel is a long, looping farewell to the idea of conspiracy, almost to the idea of narrative, DeLillo's explores conspiracy's legacy or, more precisely, a world bereft of conspiracy, in mourning for the scary, constricting sense the old secrets used to make.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v20/n03/wood01_.html (2765 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Harvard law student puts off doctorate to pen romance novel
		Willig has been batting around ideas for a romance novel since childhood, but she didn't start writing "Pink Carnation" until the summer after her second year of graduate school, as a reward to herself for passing her exams.
		It seems a natural progression for a woman who, in the third grade, got in trouble for bringing a trashy romance novel to school.
		Then, at age 9, she mailed her first attempt at a novel to a publisher.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/12/harvard_law_student_puts_off_doctorate_to_pen_romance_novel (431 words)

	5837254
		The treatment and novel compositions of the invention are effective in controlling fungal and yeast infections in two days to two weeks and provide a non-toxic treatment of vaginal yeast and other fungal infections caused by cryptococcus and candida.
		The novel gentian preparations also can be applied topically for cutaneous yeast infections and are administered in the form of suppositories, lozenges and creams to treat mucosal yeast infections.
		The gentian oral preparations of the invention are capable of passing through the blood brain barrier as demonstrated by the cure of meningitis caused by cryptococcus in AIDS patients.
	biomedpatent.com /5837254.htm (431 words)

	fall in persuasion
		Fortified with Austen's persuasive alternative to a dominant patriarchal ideology, one is invited to see that Anne's earlier dissatisfaction with extant poetic descriptions of Autumn is no passing aesthetic quibble but instead hints at a far more profound dissatisfaction with the extant mythography of the fall.
		Its function in the plot as classical catastrophe, however, is superseded in the novel, as tragedy is by comedy, thanks to a stronger association with the post-classical idea of a felix culpa or fortunate fall.
		In a novel that has already supplanted the patriarchal authority Anne's father Sir Walter with her aunt Lady Russell, Austen has Anne question a further aspect of traditional Christian ethics, the link between the will of God and the voice of the parent.
	www4.ncsu.edu /unity/users/m/morillo/public/perfall.htm (2930 words)

	Johan Svedjedal : A Note on the Concept of "Hypertext"
		Literary works of fiction are generally structured monosequentially, meant to be read from beginning to end – the reader starting at page one of a novel and reading on until the end, the poem building up line by line, stanza by stanza, the scenes of a play being seen in a certain order.
		Most textual scholars tend to subscribe to the view that works in all arts are realized through texts – a novel being a text in the same way as a film, a cathedral, or a ballet performance.
		In passing, it should be noted that literary theorists customarily direct their attention towards the "work" in this meaning of the word, albeit using the word "text" and "work" synonymously.
	www.hb.se /bhs/ith/3-99/js.htm (4689 words)

	BAM: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex, Arts and Culture, November/December 2002
		Instead Eugenides tells his story with a now-you-see-me, now-you-don’t insouciance, and in the process creates a novel that is at once sweet and sassy and wise—proof that the Olympians are still shaking things up on earth.
		In the hands of a less talented or generous writer, Middlesex might have become an earnest examination of the complicated relationship between sex and gender—gender studies passing as fiction.
		In Jeffrey Eugenides’s sprawling, multigenerational new novel, that innocent is his narrator, Calliope Helen Stephanides, Desdemona and Lefty’s American-born granddaughter.
	www.brownalumnimagazine.com /storydetail.cfm?Id=1811 (618 words)

	Earth Wide Moth: Bellwether
		Pippa, as framed second-hand in the novel, is an elusive, fantastic figure--one who influences others from the obscure periphery, whose passing song carries from a distance and leaves its mark without Pippa full-knowing.
		And a third mirroring: the bellwether itself, as an exceptional looks-like-a-sheep, smells-like-a-sheep leader who impacts the herd without much cognizance of her persuasive impact.
		Basically, Bellwether is the story of a diffusion researcher, Sandra Foster, and her work on fads.
	www.earthwidemoth.com /mt/archives/000883.html (620 words)

	Blindness, Constant Reader Discussion
		The blind writer says in passing, "a writer manages to acquire in life the patience he needs to write." Patience, indeed, and I thought immediately of the the last line in Milton's sonnet On His Blindness: "They also serve who only stand and wait." The doctor's wife makes two stunning contributions to the scene.
		We were wondering whether the doctor's wife went blind in the end, and it still seems unsure to me. I had a feeling that she almost wanted to go blind.
		Topic: BLINDNESS by José Saramago (20 of 32), Read 34 times Conf: Reading List From: Mary Anne Papale mapreads@aol.com Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 07:14 PM Beej, I agree with you that this must be allegorical, but I was thinking more of society's blindness and indifference to the needs of humanity.
	www.constantreader.com /discussions/blindness.htm (620 words)

	CVCO - Overbooked: Speculative Fiction Stars 2005
		PW In this spectacular new SF novel of immense scope, an artificial, alien barrier is placed around the Earth, the moon and stars disappear, and scientists discover that time is passing faster outside the barrier than it is on the planet.
		Butler's first new novel in seven years is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
		In this second novel of the fanciful Sisters of the Sun trilogy, middle Fyne sister Juliet is kidnapped by the Emperor's men--only to be rescued by a man whose animal instincts tell him he's found the only woman to call his own.
	www.cvco.org /education/literature/stars/speculative/specstars05.html (4816 words)

	Scott Stark
		Several of his films introduced a novel technique where he ran movie film through a still camera, which, when projected, produces collage-like barrages of images and odd optically-generated soundtracks.
		A snapshot taken in a moment of human evolution, where the souls of the living are reflected in the windows of passing trains.
		Each of the four consists of a succession of 35mm still images which flicker, collage-like, through the 16mm projector gate, and because the images spill over onto the optical soundtrack area of the film, the variations in image density actually generate their own peculiar sounds.
	www.hi-beam.net /mkr/ss/ss-bio.html (3534 words)

	Oldcoffee: it's like a trashy novel, or sitcom...
		Culture note: In America it is very common for one, when passing with another, to prompt the question "what are you doing" or "what are you up to"; in order start up a conversation.
		Oldcoffee: it's like a trashy novel, or sitcom...
		Donuts, bowling, automobile tragedy, and fine frisky ladies with a penchant for gorgery; it's like a trashy novel, or a sitcom...
	thetasteofoldcoffee.blogspot.com /2005/04/its-like-trashy-novel-or-sitcom.html (3534 words)

	Nfl Football Stadiums Sporting Goods and Memorabilia
		Gamers will also be impressed with the revamped A. Of NFL Fever 2004, with significant offensive and defensive adjustments, animated NFL coaches roaming the sidelines offering situational analysis, brand-new offensive playbook, totally reworked stadium models, and Read and Lead advanced passing.
		NFL Fever 2004 is in championship form this year with an improved secondary, including on-the-fly defensive adjustments and adaptive defensive players, geared up to take away the deep pass.
		Strength and conditioning: During the offseason, NFL Fever 2004 fine-tuned its already tight and responsive controls to better deliver the intense action-packed pace of NFL Football.
	www.speedskating-canada.ca /3578-Nfl-Football-Stadiums.html (3534 words)

	Liberation, Commodity Culture and Community in "the Golden Age of Promiscuity"
		Lemish, walking through the Village, eulogises "the Streets" and its passing parade of identical men: "The Streets: Christopher Washington Greenwich Hudson West and Sheridan Square, such a parade, everyone dressed alike" (82).
		The book opens with a page-long district by district statistical analysis of the number of "faggots" living in the New York city area (there are, we are told, in total 2,556,596), a passage which sets the tone for the subsequent narrative's rendition of the gay ghetto in terms of standardisation, seriality and statistics.
		The inability of Faggots to imagine a credible alternative to the ghetto points to the fundamental role of the commodity in the construction of contemporary urban gay male identity; something also suggested in this particular passage in the collapsing of the ghetto and "the Streets," posited as opposites in liberation ideology.
	www.lib.latrobe.edu.au /AHR/archive/Issue-September-2001/davidson2.html (3186 words)

	Timewyrm: Exodus
		The Sixth Doctor BBC novel Players, set in the same historical era, features Joachim von Ribbentrop, King Edward VIII, Wallis Simpson and Oswald Mosley, historical figures mentioned in passing during this adventure; in the same novel, reference is made to Hitler’s odd fits and the presence of Dr Kriegslieter.
		History must be restored to its proper course, and in his attempt to repair the time lines, the Doctor faces the most terrible dilemma he has ever known...
		This story is a sequel to the TV episode The War Games, and directly follows the events of Timewyrm : Genesys.
	www.drwhoguide.com /who_na02.htm (3123 words)

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