"We have been struggling trying to find out a good way of applying this transcription factor delivery story," he says.
I didn't mind the carpooling or even the kibitzing (though I'd be happy never to hear another labor-and-delivery horror story that concluded: "So after 43 hours, I told the doctor, 'Give me the knife, I'll do it myself!'").
Delivery room horror stories and tales of baby blues caused my husband and me to spend months educating ourselves to best navigate the worst possible outcomes.
Far from decrying their victimhood, they seem to relish their suffering; with deadpan delivery, they tell stories of sinning and repentance, of punishments meted out by husbands and fathers.
In the post-delivery era, all of the big stories involve delivery pizza, which expanded pizza's reach in all sorts of surprising ways.
The sweetest bedtime-story delivery is no help when the words it delivers are a version of "... and behind this door is a tiger.
It could be transformational in terms of innovation around story delivery on all platforms and engaging its audiences in ways that were unthinkable even five years ago, as the technology and social media are evolving".
Man is an existential sad sack who instinctively sets up a game of hide-and-seek with the audience, a strategy that follows Twain's dictum about comic delivery: "The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it".
One of Miyazaki's earlier works, Kiki's Delivery Service, a story about a 13-year-old witch, has already become a million-copy seller after being released direct to video last year by Disney.
White Rose is sitting next to the perfectly crackling fire, the expressions, the harp, the watch beep, it's all perfect down to the haunting delivery of the story of Emperor Nero.
