As the book continues, and gets stranger and stranger (a changeling baby growing in the wasps' nest, for example), we begin to lose the line between what is real, what is magical, and what is simply in Steve's head.
For example, we begin from point A, and reach a critical point C where the solution starts showing a two-phase character.
To make items of steel, for example we begin with a piece of metal that is roughly the dimension we need and use dies, shears and machine tools to whittle it into the desired shape.
For example, we began writing to people who would be impacted by the benefit cap one year before the cap comes in, to let people know about the support available to them and explain their options".
For example, we began with codes for "active" and "generative" cognitive engagement, which follow from the ICAP framework, and codes for scientific practices, which follow from a sociocultural perspective.
For example, we began a selective regime with a clone whose sequence was known, the clone was expanded into a population and that population underwent a particular selective regime for a period of time.
And why we must have, or invent, our happy-ever-afters not just in grand narratives such as the Bible or Das Kapital, but in the smallest tracts of our daily lives (why, for example, do we begin and finish meals rather than just eating?) There will be disagreement about which is Kermode's best book.
For example, if we begin a military conflict with Iran or Russia, can we fight a three-front war without a draft?
For example, if we begin with an initial population of 50 Cohanim carrying a total of 10 haplogroups, we find that there is a very low probability of survival of more than a single haplogroup after 120 generations.
For example, once we began building the loft and the studs were up, I realized that the laundry room was blotting out too much light coming in from the front windows.
