And she thinks that her two dogs speak to her, and that one of them thinks of himself as Cotton Mather, the other as Malcolm X. Though Mr. Haslett's portraits of mentally unstable characters in his short stories were animated by a keen understanding of their inner lives and their skewed apprehension of the world, he does a poor job here of turning Charlotte into a flesh and blood human being.
He has mixed feelings about all this some apprehension about the world he has made.
It's Tassie's part-time job as a nanny for a middle-aged couple, however, that will irrevocably alter her apprehension of the world.
The second reason why I love Robinson, then, is how her writing puts me inside an apprehension of the world that is totally foreign to me, and that I have often approached with borderline hostility.
But if this biography suggests a varied and sympathetic apprehension of the world, it was with a far darker palette that Céline came to paint his word-pictures when he began writing in the late 1920's.
Indeed, storytelling itself remains a central concern in the author's work, in both his taste for willfully complicated narratives and his philosophical preoccupation with the ways in which subjectivity acts as a distorting prism for our apprehension of the world.
He is similarly casual about his father's tenure as governor of California and as president, giving us a handful of personal anecdotes but appreciably little insight into how Ronald Reagan's political thinking evolved or how his time in office shaped or reshaped his apprehension of the world.
For Walter, the farm represents his safe return from France, and separation from his own family, achievement and potential; for Frank, it is the vivid, fragmented apprehension of the world, of porch and cat and grass and road and corn, "and around that, a different thing, empty, flat, and large, the thing that lay over all things".
Although "Borrowed Finery" sometimes feels like a collection of almost random recollections, this fractured narrative is doubtless meant to mirror the author's chaotic childhood, just as her refusal to speculate about the reasons for her parents' behavior seems meant to reflect a child's bewildered apprehension of the world.
But his appreciation of the magic of language and his ardent love of reading have not only endowed him with a rare ability to communicate his ideas to millions of Americans while contextualizing complex ideas about race and religion, they have also shaped his sense of who he is and his apprehension of the world.
Intellectual Powers expands his system beyond the apprehension of the world through the senses to consideration of memory, imagination, knowledge, the nature of judgment, reasoning and taste.
