Almost like a cyclical return to times of industrial labor, your body is your most valuable asset in 2031, and your only chance of survival lies in recycling or renting out your own flesh.
He also projects that the 2016 U.S. presidential election will mark an "uncommon but cyclical return" of foreign policy as a top priority on campaign platforms.
The cyclical return of exhilarating moments of ascent after painful periods of decay has become familiar to the Italian and the Chinese minds which, used to worldly transience, have become more modest, more practical but especially apt also to capture the beauty of ephemeral instants.
Motion wrote that Van Rompuy "captures an idea of transience here, and of cyclical return - ideas which are central to the tradition of haikus.
The call of this cyclical return is to question what you may have been told was a bunch of socialists, or anarchists (a term I've just heard again for the first time in 3 decades to describe today's protestors).
That's because making a song of the summer is not about originality: it is about the joy of our cyclical return to warmer, better days, embodied by the carefree voices of the stars we idolize.
But we have definitely entered one of those cyclical returns to a recognition of limits, a focus on problems at home, a skepticism toward overseas ventures in the name of lofty ideals.
The great year that corresponds to the precessional cycle and the myth of replacement that arises from the replacement of one pole star with another are, in the context of the Wake, another way of telling the story of generational conflict and cyclical return.
A joke, perhaps, but one that shouldn't be dismissed too lightly, because as the horror genre enjoys one of its shambling, cyclical returns to form, could it possibly be that such spikes in supernatural fiction's popularity do, in fact, coincide with Conservative gains on the UK's political battlefield?
Butler took a cyclical view of history.
