The similarities between "Percy Jackson & the Olympians" and "The Red Pyramid" are numerous, but if "The Red Pyramid" comes off as derivative, at least Riordan is deriving from himself.
I'm reliably informed that Amis himself derived that episode from an evening of drinking with another novelist, the one (memory fails me) with the Scottish name and the English attitude.
It was recently shown by R. Heck [1993] that, despite the logical inconsistency in the system of Frege 1893/1903, Frege himself validly derived the Dedekind/Peano axioms from Hume's Principle.
Keirrison's father, himself a professional, derived the names of his three sons from that of the rock musician Jim Morrison.
Wisely he kept this ability to himself and publicly derived his information about the patient's inner workings by carefully attending to the pulse.
Wisely, he kept this ability to himself and publicly derived his information about the patient's inner workings by carefully attending to the pulse.
But the manager himself derives as much pleasure from the first trip to London and Loftus Road.
Some derive from Roth himself, always an unreliable narrator, especially in his 1988 "novelist's autobiography", The Facts.
The young Jean-Paul Sartre insisted on taking Simone de Beauvoir to repeated viewings, so that she might understand the existential values of a protagonist without filial obligation who "wished to derive only from himself".
In some cases the author adopts the heuristic method, and requires the student to derive formulæ for himself, as, for instance, in finding the factors of x3±y3 and x3+y3+z3 — 3xyz, and in finding the meaning of fractional indices and the values of logarithms.
