You might notice that the signatures and clef were inserted in a strange order.
Living among distant connections, where what happens in Bangalore happens in Boston, we are more receptive to the idea of such a strange order in the universe.
Some years ago, a very enthusiastic cleaning lady took all my books out to dust them while we were away and put them back in such a strange order I've never been able to find anything since.
The Breves causae and Argumenta are arranged in a strange order: first come the Breves causae and Argumenta for Matthew, followed by the Breves and Argumenta for Mark, then, quite oddly, come the Argumenta of both Luke and John, followed by their Breves causae.
Turn your iTunes on random to shuffle all your songs into a strange order and try and guess what's being played.
"If you went into a bar and the bartender was wearing gloves on his hands, you'd probably feel a little strange ordering a drink from him".
Kennedy is believed to have played a role in a similarly strange order earlier this year, which called for additional briefing in a high-stakes case pitting religious liberty against contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
But Damasio, while ever ready to salute his predecessors and peers, is wholly his own man, and The Strange Order of Things is a fresh and daring effort to identify the true spring and source of human being – of the being, in fact, of all living things – namely feeling.
He tended to many of Hughes' strange orders, keeping watch over a plane that the reclusive millionaire owned but rarely flew, and monitoring Hughes' wife, actress Jean Peters, from the shrubbery of a Beverly Hills bungalow.
In 1967, he followed "Julian" with "Washington, D.C.," the opening volume of a sequence of novels variously known as "American Chronicles" or "Narratives of Empire," which he pursued intermittently, and in strange order, over the next three decades.
Damasio: That is the critical novelty in "Strange Order". Feelings get their power from the life process itself, from the imperative of homeostasis that was already hard at work in creatures without nervous systems, minds, consciousness or feelings.
