Much of the history of The Realms detailed in novels and source books concerns the actions of various deities and The Chosen (mortal representatives with a portion of their deities' power) such as Elminster, Fzoul Chembryl, Midnight (who later became the new embodiment of the goddess of magic, Mystra), and the Seven Sisters.
For concepts rooted in the fantasy realm, however, details matter little.
The series is one of the great recent cinematic achievements; its ideas are profound; its effect is enduring; it will rightly provide much more to mull over and to piece together than a brief essay or two can do — and it's precisely in that fateful realm of detail-fitting and of interpretive madness that it's distinguished, to its disadvantage, from the realm of the great movies that inspire it.
Your sense of time drops away, you cease to see actors and see only people, you enter a fully imagined realm in which every detail of emotion, action and language is perfectly aligned.
A Ghibli animator turned director, Mr. Yonebayashi fills in this hidden realm with fanciful dollhouse detail, both in the Clock quarters — where a clay flower pot serves as the hearth, and postage stamps hang like paintings — and in the shadowy interiors where Arrietty, nimbly scaling steps made of nails, first learns the art of the steal from her father, Pod (Will Arnett).
Freud, however, shows a way to assimilate the most contingent and arbitrary mimetic details into the realm of meaning.
Each of the new songs looms within a larger, obsessively detailed ambience, a realm of magnified creaks and rustles, children's voices, tinkling music boxes and shadowy orchestras.
To try to reproduce that world according to the canons of 21st-century movie realism would be to diminish and falsify his narrative, which ascends through cultural and social detail into a realm of universal emotion.
23andMe, however, does provide more detail in the realm of Europe, noting that I'm 12.2% British and Irish.
Bjork's heaven is a realm of timeless purity and modern details, of whispered secrets and swelling cinematic crescendos, where the desires of the body and of the spirit are all fulfilled.
