This self-conscious interest in narrative gamesmanship and in the nature of storytelling gives Zachary Mason the modishly postmodern theme of his book, the Preface of which tells us that the chapters that follow are translations of newly discovered sections of the Odysseus cycle: "forty-four concise variations on Odysseus' story... where the familiar characters are arranged in new tableaux".
Writer George Meyer, who was very "animal conscious," was interested in writing an episode related to an annual ritual held in a Texan town, where the townspeople would beat rattlesnakes with sticks.
Individuals become conscious of their interest as citizens, according to Rousseau, and thus of that of the republic as a whole, not through spirited discussions but, on the contrary, by following their personal conscience in the "silence of the passions".
You don't have to make any conscious entry into interest graph networking.
"We are conscious that current interest rates are high," he said.
Anyone who has ever been on a judging panel (and many of us writers have) know that taste, conscious or unconscious interest and competing egos are usually enough to make deciding any prize a nightmare.
While a preoccupation with folklore has always persisted one way or another (everyday examples include singing happy birthday, wetting a baby's head after a birth and the name of your local pub, if it's been there long enough), there has been a more conscious resurgence in interest in recent years.
First, in order to examine the brain regions associated with the two dimensions of conscious experiences of interest, a 2 (task-relatedness)×2 (stimulus-dependency) whole-brain voxel-wise ANOVA was performed.
Overall, the behavioral data on SART performance are consistent with previous studies using a similar method [46], [54] and provide a behavioral validation of the finer-grained thought-probe method used in this study to assess the four classes of conscious experiences of interest.
"From that moment on I was conscious I was interested in places where time has stood its ground".
