Because, as the critic, writer and translator Tim Parks puts it, the literary experience depends on "the movement of the mind through a sequence of words", meaning that reading is nearer than any other art form to "pure mental material, as close as one can get to thought itself", when you read the same book as someone else, your thoughts are – even if only temporarily and partially – aligned.
They range from the use of an ominous first-person narrator (who says things like, "That was the day everything changed — for all of us") and a climactic, wordless ballet of gestures that directly brings to mind a similar sequence from the National Theater of Scotland's "Black Watch" (recently staged at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn).
You can't schedule every interruption, or predict how many times the phone will ring in an afternoon, but you may be able to select your tasks and have in mind a general sequence of events to complete them but avoid needless repetition or redundancy.
These processes include ignoring distractions to stay focused, switching attention willfully from one thing to another and holding information in mind — like remembering a sequence of directions while driving.
Owen developed the idea of "archetypes" in the Divine mind that would produce a sequence of species related by anatomical homologies, such as vertebrate limbs.
Eyes and seeing are central to the heap of metaphors in "Minority Report": Anderton has to have his eyes plucked out of his head -- in a sequence that brings to mind the clamps holding Alex's eyes wide open in "A Clockwork Orange" -- to gain deeper insight.
How could any Western leader in his right mind risk initiating such a sequence of events?The succinct answer of Senator John McCain is that although attacking Iran would be bad, an Iran with nuclear weapons would be worse.
With that in mind we recall that a sequence ({f_{k} }_{kin mathbb{N}}) is called equi-integrable on Ω if for any (delta>0), there is a (tau=tau(delta)) such that (int_{S} vert f_{k}vert,dx<delta) for every measurable subset (SsubsetOmega) of Lebesgue measure (vert Svert <tau).
Vidal, however, had nothing like a sequence in mind when he published Washington, DC (1967), a fairly conventional novel about politics during the era of FDR.
Artest was erratic down the stretch, with a costly turnover and a mind-numbing sequence in which he dribbled out most of the shot clock when the Lakers needed every second.
