The crowd stood in murmuring dread-a momentary boldness brought them forth - to see what they now feared to watch lest action mingle stage and watcher.
"Guerra was not credible from day one, and he has now admitted under oath that he lied about the entire case and the principal charges in the case, of a bribe and of a ghostwritten verdict, have now been proven by the very witness that brought them forth to be a lie".
Dick's parable evokes the absurd yearning embedded in our reverence toward art, and the tragicomic paradoxes "masterpieces" embody in the human realm that brings them forth and gives them their only value.
Let's meet some, after a quick overview of the social and market forces that are bringing them forth.
Internationally-acclaimed artist Christophe Leroux displays an innate yet well-tempered sensibility concerning these contrasts - grace and power; fragility and strength -- bringing them forth in dramatic and provocative ways in his show "New Works" - which runs through Saturday, October 11, at the Sonce Alexander Gallery, in Los Angeles.
This means that any talent you may have should be practised with an eye to making the most of your talents, to bring them forth to the best of your ability.
Does this mean we are all going to have to root around for our birth certificates and so forth and bring them to the D.M.V.? Egads!
But there was a time when Norway was thought dull, and Ireland was thought absurd, yet both of them brought forth plays which have been acclaimed as treasures by theaters around the world". As "Happy Alchemy" attests, Canada's own literary reputation got an immeasurable boost with the addition of Davies to the library.
Twelve score years ago our forefathers, all four of them, brought forth on this continent a newly constructed nation, conceived in competition and dedicated to the proposition that most people are losers and only a few of us get to be winners.
Abraham, after all, brought forth Ishmael; and Isaac brought forth Esau.
Jesus himself, in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), was constantly preoccupied with the effort of making people better, of having them bring forth "good fruit".
