A Nigerian publisher once told me that of the manuscripts she reads from aspiring writers, half echo Chinua Achebe and half try to adopt Wole Soyinka's style.
Thus, the amplitude of the echo at the time t is related to the transverse relaxation T 2, gradient G, self-diffusion coefficient D, gyromagnetic ratio γ, and the half echo spacing τ through the following equation: M_{t} = { exp }left( { - frac{ 1}{{T_{ 2} }} - frac{{gamma^{ 2} G^{ 2} Dtau^{ 2} t}}{ 3}} right) (1).
The book is full of such differences, half-echoes, re-imaginings, changes in the light.At its centre is Jean's abortive pregnancy, a fetus dead at seven months which, as Abu Simbel awaits its own false rebirth, she is told she must carry to term.
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Inhuman barked orders, as if issued by men who were half wolves, echoed through the fort at each changing of the guard.
He held out the last syllable, "ing," for five and a half beats, echoing the jangle of Monk's pianism, and expecting everyone to get it.
If the first half has echoes of Henry James and Edith Wharton, the second half is pure American gothic and you can feel Greenberg resorting to increasingly implausible devices to keep the action moving.
If the show's first half deliberately echoes High Society, the second, set in 1973, with mother and daughter now living in fretful isolation, brings back memories of the sadomasochistic movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Ben's battlefield heroism in the first half is echoed in the second by his exploits as founder and leader of a paramilitary group he calls the "Ku Klux Klan" — portrayed here as gallant knights out of a Walter Scott tale, called upon to combat the excesses of newly freed black slaves manipulated by power-hungry white politicians.
Darren Fletcher, who replaced Brown and took the captain's armband at half time, echoed the Celtic midfielder's sentiments.
Once, near the end, she half-unconsciously echoed, "Voilà" (I'm here, an expression which we used mutually during a whole lifetime).
