Maf the canine savant is a shrewd observer of the modern age and of the American century, a veritable Tocqueville for our times: "It has never been easy for us Trotskyists to face, but it was America, dear, golden, childish America, that joined the narrative of personal ambition to the myth of a common consciousness, making a hymn, oh yes, to the future, the spirit, and the rolling land.
As we have already said, when different ethnicities live together for a long time, with frequent contacts, they form a common consciousness and common interests linked with the territory.
I believe that pets share a common consciousness.
These confusions had a simple cause: the empire of Austria with its various fragments was the dynastic possession of the house of Habsburg, not a state with any common consciousness or purpose.
It will create a new common consciousness.
Many, perhaps almost all, have been every bit as futile.Yet the war which Harry Patch and Henry Allingham represented, as the last two fighting British servicemen, holds a different place in the common consciousness.
The outcry over Mr Berlusconi's possible return, they think, demonstrates that Europeans are at last developing an elusive sentiment: a common political consciousness that might serve as the basis for further integration.
During the long struggle, the people of Eritrea managed to forge a common national consciousness, but, with peace established, they faced the task of overcoming their ethnic and religious differences in order to raise the country from a poverty made worse by years of drought, neglect, and war.
They don't just take us into the warehouses of Huddersfield and nightclubs of Warrington they were filmed in - they take us into the deep, dank recesses of a common cultural consciousness that felt like the future, but was forever stalled.
Later, another Cecil scholar calls him "a first-rate example of the second-rate poet who enters into common consciousness more deeply than many greater masters".
When Cecil dies during the war, the poem is extolled by Churchill, as Rupert Brooke's "The Soldier" was, and becomes famous as an evocation of a country on the brink of a great change: "A first-rate example of the second-rate poet who enters into common consciousness more deeply than many great masters," as one character puts it.
