![]() ![]() Kynes, views Dune’s ecology within a chaos-theory model, as a dynamical system that might be radically altered through a minimal change in one key variable, “the water cycle,” affecting its interlocking feedback loops ( Dune, 1:274/269, 1:139/137). As chaos theory is the study of orderly patterns in turbulent, erratic, or dynamical systems, and as an ecology is by definition a dynamical system, chaos-theory concepts provide insight into the dynamics of any ecology, and the orderly patterns discernible within an ecology will reveal chaos-theory structures. ![]() Patterns Within Patterns’: Chaos-Theory Concepts and Structures in Frank Herbert’s Dune Novels,” this ecological motif is integrated into many of the other most prominent elements of the Dune Chronicles, what we might call their “overtones,” through mutual connections to chaos-theory concepts and structures. ![]() Frank Herbert wrote that Dune “was to be an ecological novel.with many overtones.” 1 As I have argued in “‘Plots Within Plots. Donald Palumbo The Monomyth as Fractal Pattern in Frank Herbert’s Dune Novelsġ. ![]()
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When Barbour and Company published this book using the same language and providing space for personal notes I bought and used it. I was introduced to this forty-five years later. In 1935 Dodd, Mead, and Company, published My Utmost for His Highest in the United States. After Oswald Chambers death in Egypt in 1917 at the age of forty-three, his widow began to assemble his teachings and publish them. I believe there are words here that were inspired by the Holy Spirit and have been preserved for disciples of Jesus Christ. I have observed that this book is owned and cherished but not customarily read. INTRODUCTION This commentary is written to aid and encourage maturing Christians who sometimes find the book by Oswald Chambers My Utmost for His Highest difficult to understand in his original language. ![]() ![]() 'Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian 'Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday ![]() It was the fate of Horza, the Changer, and his motley crew of unpredictable mercenaries, human and machine, to actually find it - and with it their own destruction. ![]() Both the Culture and the Idirans sought it. Deep within a fabled labyrinth on a barren world, a Planet of the Dead proscribed to mortals, lay a fugitive Mind. Within the cosmic conflict, an individual crusade. The Idirans fought for their Faith the Culture for its moral right to exist. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. ![]() Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Consider Phlebas is a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination, from a modern master of science fiction. ![]() ![]() The children decide to keep the discovery to themselves. ![]() They recognise a drawing of the local coastline that may be a kind of map, with almost illegible text, but Barney realises that the map refers to King Arthur and his knights. In the attic of the big Grey House they are renting from Merriman's friend Captain Toms the children find an old manuscript. The Drew family meet him in the fictional fishing village of Trewissick on the southern coast of Cornwall. Over Sea, Under Stone features the Drew children, Simon, Jane and Barney, on holiday with their parents and Merriman Lyon, an old family friend, usually referred to by the children as their great-uncle. 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He made it, along with the great Mont St Michel, the launching point for this extended imaginative engagement with the art and culture, mostly French, of the 12th and 13th centuries. Henry Adams also saw Chartres, and loved it. My dominant memories are of a dimmed, vaulting interior and glory all around. I met the famous English guide, Malcolm Miller, who has been giving tours there for decades. It was a slightly overcast day perhaps I had hoped to see Chartres draped in an overhanging blue mantle, and so was slightly, very slightly, disappointed as I approached. It was a short train ride from Paris I remember passing through the Versailles train station en route and caring not a whit for it my heart was set further down that track. I went to Chartres on my first trip to France. ![]() ![]() ![]() Luciano’s father was employed in a sulfur mine in Sicily during this time. He was the offspring of Antonio Lucania and Rosalia Capporelli, who had a total of five children, including Bartolomeo, Giuseppe, Filippa, and Concetta. ![]() Luciano, also known by his birth name Salvatore Lucania, was born on November 24, 1897, in the town of Lercara Friddi located in Sicily, Italy. ![]() Luciano was eight years old his family emigrated from Sicily to the United States Luciano was impressed by Lansky’s resolute response to his demands and the two established a lasting and profitable alliance. Luciano encountered Meyer Lansky, another young delinquent when he attempted to extort Lansky for protection money on his route home from school. Unlike other street-based gangs who engaged in petty criminality, Luciano provided protection to Jewish juveniles from the threat of Italian and Irish gangs, charging a nominal fee of ten cents per week.ĭuring this time, he also began to familiarize himself with the trade of pimping in the years surrounding World War I. Luciano started his gang when he was a teenagerĪs a juvenile, Luciano established his own criminal organization and became a Storied Five Points Gang member. ![]() |