For the central section of the ceiling, Michelangelo has taken four episodes from the story of Adam and Eve as told in the first, second and third chapters of Genesis.
The story of the Trippe/Lindbergh expedition in 1929 as told in the first three blogs in this series, is just one of hundreds of fascinating accounts of how Juan Trippe virtually single-handedly opened up the modern world to commercial flight.
In the Bible, Mount Carmel is where the prophet Elijah waged a successful contest against the priests of Baal, as told in the Book of First Kings.
Nonetheless, as Asher (p. xiv) recognizes, few young-earth creationists (who believe that God created the universe and its contents in 6 days, less than 10 millennia ago, as told in the Bible's first two chapters) or proponents of intelligent design (who argue that God demonstrably designed many of the ancestors of today's organisms) will read this book, let alone be convinced by it.
As bravely told in the first person by MC Justice, this wasn't the deranged act of a lone lunatic - it was the inevitable result of a society built on deeply embedded, multi-generational racism, deprivation, and disempowerment imposed systematically on black America.
Yet the elephant also has a double nature, as a story told in the first novella indicates, about a man confronted with a stampede.
Probably not as good as that of most narrators of novels told in the first person.
Focusing on its presentation on screen, Alan Davis offers another definition of digital story as "a form of short narrative, usually a personal narrative told in the first person, presented as a short movie for display on a television or computer monitor or projected onto a screen" (Kajder et al. [2005]).
More successful was the opera La Vera Storia, in which the second act is a retelling, in a form Berio describes as "oneiric" [dreamlike], of the story told in the first, where it is "real and concrete".
As the title suggests, the novel is told in the first person, and Settle is enthusiastic about recreating a 17th-century voice (though she has abstained, mercifully, from 17th-century punctuation and spelling).
