While harking back to Beckett and Pirandello, Saunders also anticipates Stoppard in his ability to shatter the carapace of cleverness with sudden bursts of emotion: it's there when Rudge unexpectedly talks of the quality of grief that haunts even the happiest of human occasions.
They were also known to attack humans on occasion.
Barrie (1860-1937), the Scottish weaver's son who rose to be a baronet, was a prolific author but these days he is increasingly known only for the perennial Christmas favourite Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904), an adventure story that is a matchless depiction of the drive towards – and the human deprivations occasioned by – the desire to remain a child forever.
On this occasion human frailty, rather than any Hand of God, contributed to their downfall.
On each occasion, human capital provided the secret to Boston's rebirth.
A beefsteak!" he says, indicating a foot-long, ruby-red bracket fungus which can drip bloody juice and has been mistaken for a human organ on occasion.
Although unable to capture prey, pandas retain a taste for meat, which is used as bait to capture them for radio collaring and has made them pests in human camps on occasion.
He is sometimes pictured in human form, on occasion having animal attributes or riding an animal; in other traditions, he is a giant animal or can assume animal form.
Possible accidents, such as fires in commercial centers can be occasion human, social, and economic catastrophic consequences.
Although he admits that on occasion human choice is able to contravene the celestial bodies, nevertheless this intervention is rare, and true contingency is a rare state of affairs indeed in Gersonides' ontology.
