The novel is supposedly set in the present day, yet it's a present day where everyone is keeping secret journals – page after page of descriptive prose – and writing letters, and no one is social networking or sending emails or recording their life in a non-anachronistic way.
But that's a present day problem.
The hymns of the week repeatedly use the present tense and the word "today" because Christ's saving Passion and life-giving Resurrection are a present day reality and hope -- not some far away historical.
George Lois, the pioneering magazine and ad designer, and his wife, Rosemary, say that, as a hostess and a matchmaker, Hastreiter is a present-day Gertrude Stein.
Instead, the novel is a present-day reflection back to the summer of 1959, when its South African narrator, Deidre, then 17 years old, was sent from her sister's care in Paris to live as a boarder at the millhouse ("packed off in disgrace," in fact, after a disastrous love affair).
But perhaps foremost it is a present-day reminder of an era when the city actually worked: when tin and sugar were produced in its factories, when garments were assembled in its textile lofts, when cargo freighters full of sofas and bananas were unloaded at its docks.
The Selfish Giant, the second film from Clio Barnard, the British director who made The Arbor, is a present-day reworking of Oscar Wilde's fairlytale and is playing in the Directors' Fortnight, while For Those In Peril, a debut from the young Scottish film-maker Paul Wright, will screen as part of Critics' Week.
With a non-systematic integration of known developments and upgrading design tips like recycling, improving "by plug" and oversizing to delay replacing, the results show that upgradability is a present-day opportunity to develop sustainable systems.
The first simulation is a present-day Earth (PDE) simulation, the second is a simulation of a tidally locked Earth-like planet with a tidally locked aquaplanet sea surface temperature (cold TLE (CLTE)) and the third is a hybrid simulation of a tidally locked Earth-like planet with a present-day Earth sea surface temperature (warm TLE (WTLE)).
More importantly, it can be argued that the Turkana's favourite-ox is a present-day tool that allows anthropologists to understand better the systems of thought, values and aesthetic perceptions of long-vanished prehistoric pastoral societies that produced similar rock art images.
