Like Coetzee, Crace asks large questions: How will ordinary people behave when ripped from their mundane routines, cut adrift from comforting old verities?
All through the Rift Valley region, my travel companion, an Ethiopian economist, had taken to pointing out all the new fence posts, standing naked and knobby like freshly cut saplings — mundane signifiers, he said, of the recent rush for Ethiopian land.
Mundane efficiency fixes can cut 20% from energy bills, says Fradin.
"I sought to obliquely reframe the stuff we subject ourselves to (whether beautiful, distressing, mundane, frivolous or eroticized) and algorithmically cut them into a new context".
Mundane virtue therefore is not clean cut and what may be virtuous to one may be non-virtuous to another, especially acts of schadenfreude.
His 12 victims have been cut down in the midst of mundane activities, far enough from the sniper so that he escapes unseen.
Have you taken a short cut on the plot, making it mundane or superficial?
His soft reputation was due in part to his West Coast upbringing in Inglewood, Calif., his career at the clean-cut University of Kansas and his mundane physique.
Often, power cuts disrupt the whole systemic chain of mundane actions[4].
Booking travel and restaurant reservations, rearranging meeting schedules or even taking a first cut at reading e-mail are among the mundane tasks that have remained beyond the reach of our PCs for decades.
