Four, it follows an established set of parameters and rules, and requires some artificial boundary of time and space.
A limited period of time, like 28 years (per the original Constitutional statute), giving individuals monopoly rights over intellectual property is the outer most boundary of time that a society invested in the speech rights and intellectual rights of its people would allow in good conscience.
Though the novel ostensibly recounts the events of four desperate days in New York, it extends far beyond these boundaries of time and space.
Leaving aside the bad jokes, how far should we imagine that jokes and laughter are a universal, "natural" human phenomenon transcending boundaries of time and space?
I'm not talking about Car and Driver or Road and Track; those are generalist books, uniting car enthusiasts across boundaries of time, category and brand.
As a soda machine hummed, students prepared to record a local metal band and debated whether reggae is fundamentally a 1970s style or "transcends the boundaries of time".
In portraying the tours of duty in Iraq of members of the Black Watch, a some 300-year-old regiment with a gloriously storied past, this production dissolves traditional boundaries of time and form.
He widened the improvisational boundaries of time and harmony and melody, but he did not reject what had come before, for at bottom he was a conservative, who found new ways of expressing what King Oliver and Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet had said earlier.
Using metaphoric memories to blur the boundaries of time and geography, Dah Teatar has found an artistic method well suited to the landscape of cultural confusion that prevails in the country now known as "the former Yugoslavia".
But in "War in the Gulf," cable's first all-news network surpassed these forms by melding them, updating their primitive technology and bursting through their previous boundaries of time and space.
