I find Remnick's descriptions of today's Russia to be valuable, but they bring to mind elements of Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's prewar Germany.
Her fellow guests teetering along bark-covered paths past weird artworks in their stilettos also called to mind elements of old flicks, specifically those featuring intergalactic molls who always seemed overdressed for trips to Mars.
To keep the question alive whether any of it was real in Arroway's mind, elements such as ocean waves running in reverse and palm tree shadows swaying with sped-up motion were applied.
While it is not the strongest story of the Sherlock saga, the writing is just as sharp and fresh, with the mind palace element toned down a few notches.
Mr. Jha's tale takes form out of the jagged landscape of his narrator's mind, each element of the larger story associated with a different talisman, like the black and yellow advertising banner for an antiseptic cream, Boroline, that he associates with an event from his sister's terrible marriage.
In oral arguments on the securities fraud charge, Cedarbaum was clearly troubled by the difficulty of discerning Stewart's state of mind, an element of any fraud charge.
"Usually when I'm making music it's a lack of sleep that is the main mind-altering element".
And so the Hamiltonian concept of collage does spring to mind, taking elements from here, there and everywhere, and from them creating something new..
The whimsical, eccentric, fantasy-prone young heroine; the handsome drifter who wanders into her life; the music of yearning that seems to hum in everyone's mind: such elements, typical of a work by, say, William Inge, are conspicuously in evidence here.
Further, these a priori structures organize the subject's representations and thereby contribute a subjective, mind-dependent element to them.
