Gurganus splendidly allows the flood to be a deus ex machina that resolves nothing; it merely brings existing perplexities into higher relief.
Pedraza also brings the added perplexity of fighting from both right-handed and left-handed stances.
So I'll close with that as a way of trying to bring out yet again the perplexity of moral, or perhaps, immoral luck.
My perplexity led me to bring my own way of seeing people, of seeing the world, into the book.
Novelists bring a personal voice to the "profound perplexity" of human life.
With respect to the two distinct races whose peculiar relations to each other have brought upon us the deplorable complications and perplexities which exist in those States, it must be a government which guards the interests of both races carefully and equally.
In February 2004, to my perplexity and my delight, the mail brought an advance, but finished, copy of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.
The three left behind in peace, to play chess or read or make music – there was a passable piano for Adrian, and Nico had brought his cello – looked at one another in amused perplexity.
But the sudden appearance of Islamic State (Isis) in Mosul last year, and the continuing failure to stem its expansion or check its appeal, is the clearest sign of a general perplexity, especially among political elites, who do not seem to know what they are doing and what they are bringing about.
Through bringing these space objects into contact with the day-to-day of our lives, Paterson brings a little of their mystery with it, igniting out imaginations with the perplexity of the universe.
