The story of Noah has inspired and provoked our consciousness for thousands of years, and a modern artist, Darren Aronofsky, has been possessed by the story once again.
Because the novel is so hard to understand, there's little agreement about the plot — other than that it's a prolonged immersion into the stream of consciousness provoked by the titular Finnegan's dreams.
They remain unconscious; and if the physician attempts to bring them into the patient's consciousness he provokes a "resistance".
This consciousness should provoke nations to "greater action even as we cope with the pressures of the current global economic downturn," he said.
Unfortunately, horse racing does not command enough of the sporting public's consciousness to provoke an urgent outcry for better safety measures.
A lot happened in that time, not least the political awakening that provoked shifts in both consciousness and standards of what it meant to be a woman and play like a man.
That action, coming at a time when large numbers of ex-soldiers were employed in the cloth industry, many of them as ciompi (wool carders), provoked an acute political consciousness among the poor.
It is the seizures that provoke a loss of consciousness that most worry researchers because these seizures appear to be most linked to sudden death and damage to the hippocampus.
For someone of my generation, the nostalgia that the 8-bit animation provokes adds another layer of consciousness about the passing of time.
