Still, despite the absence of a truly evil threat and despite the somewhat musty quality of the narrative -- with its pseudo-Victorian prose, its mustache-twirling villains and its cliff-hanging chapter endings -- "The Alienist" does keep its philosophical questions simmering.
Carlo Collodi was a satirist with a reputation for indolence, womanising and gambling - hardly a model of morality - and he tired of Pinocchio after 15 chapters and left him hanging dead from a tree.
"It would be nice to be seen as generous," he writes at the beginning of chapter 16, the "nice" hanging in the air, limp and ineffectual.
There is always that eerie supernatural element hanging over your head – right after the first chapter!
Bonos: In the first chapter, you write about your 40th birthday hanging over you like a guillotine, which is such an evocative and accurate way of addressing that fear of turning 40 as a woman.
Jones was never "keen on guitars", Marr was never not (his first chapter details a magical encounter with one hanging in his local corner shop between "buckets and brooms" – he wasn't yet five).
Cliffhangers are paragraph-or chapter-ending sentences that leave your reader hanging and wanting more.
Left hanging is the future of the ailing 81-year-old chapter and its 47-year-old building at 146 N. Grand St .in Orange.
Sorry, guys.' It's not until you look back that you realize a certain chapter was ending — the time when we were just hanging out with our friends and having all the time in the world — and another is starting.
The Louisiana State University chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon will end its "rich tradition" of hanging offensive game day banners, after hanging ones that mocked Michael Sam's sexuality, the Aurora, Colorado, shooting massacre and the 1970 killing of four Kent State University students by the National Guard, all without any sanction by the university.
One chapter cautioned against keeping old lecture materials; another warned about hanging on to tech manuals as though you'll ever use them over Googling the phrase "iPhone water damage rice not working" over and over.
