I have come to be convinced that this discrepancy is not the result of personal predilections: it arises out of the peculiar forms of resistance that climate change presents to what is now regarded as serious fiction...
This is a strange, rather remote anxiety: like a noise heard in sleep, it does not remain what it is, but infiltrates the unconscious and makes peculiar forms there.
This largely forgettable evening has thus given Arsenal the most momentous night in their history, with Barcelona or Milan to be encountered in a final at the Stade de France on May 17. Joy arrives in peculiar forms.
Almost for the fun of it, Mr Rosenbaum overflows into a chapter on Shakespeare in the original spelling, where peculiar forms ("shroudly" for "shrewdly", for example, in the opening scene of "Hamlet") can strike strange resonances.Mr Rosenbaum is always alive and engaging.
Furthermore, we learn that "colours, sounds, smells, &c., do not belong to things in themselves, … they are peculiar forms of excitation of our sensibility, which are called forth by corresponding but qualitatively very different phenomena in the world" (3:217).
The challenges are not only technical, requiring programmatic or engineering solutions, but are also and most importantly political, because solutions will most often cause a rearrangement of the peculiar forms of power relations that have emerged within institutional and political environments of the two countries.
