This sculpture originally featured as an attraction in that great precursor to department stores and exhibition centres such as Earls Court or the NEC, and it was presented as both piously improving and desirable home decoration.
As is Lethem's generous habit, all six essays honor writers who, except for the then-ascendant Bolaño and of course West ("the great precursor to Heller, Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Colson Whitehead and so much else"), have been underpraised.
North's arrival from Scarlets in the summer - coupled with the signings of England and Lions prop Alex Corbisiero and Samoa fly-half Kahn Fotuali'i - have given the Northampton contingent belief that last season's Premiership final defeat by Leicester is a precursor to greater achievements.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would not be putting boots on the ground in Syria, trying to tamp down concern that the recent U.S. airstrike against President Bashar Assad's forces was a precursor to greater involvement.
The move to prosecute police officers in the deaths of 37 demonstrators who were arrested during Cairo protests in August was being closely watched as a potential precursor to greater scrutiny of the interim government's overall dealings with the Muslim Brotherhood.
Private banks have only issued the majority of mortgage-backed securities once in history: from 2002 to 2006, the housing boom that became the precursor to the greatest financial collapse since the Depression.
Further studies are required to determine whether these increases are due to greater precursor recruitment and/or retention and local maturation.
However much I hope otherwise, I suspect that the past few days are just the precursor to even greater nastiness.
Waverley is not a precursor to the great Victorian novels (or even the mediocre Victorian novels by the likes of Bulwer-Lytton and Harrison Ainsworth) but a development from the form's 18th-century radical roots.
The 1987 policy reversal occurred after then Sri Lankan President J.R. Jayewardene a wily old fox sold neophyte Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi the line that an "Eelam," or Tamil homeland, in Sri Lanka would be a dangerous precursor to a Greater Eelam uniting Tamils on both sides of the Palk Straits.
