"The past is hidden outside the realm," writes Proust in Swann's Way, "beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object (in the sensation which that material object will give us) of which we have no inkling.
Christopher Andrew, in his definitive history of M.I.5, "Defend the Realm," writes, "The KGB found the Hollis conspiracy theory so bizarre that some of its foreign intelligence officers suspected that it derived from 'some mysterious, internal British intrigue.' " As for Kagan, Leigh points out how far-fetched Wright's suspicions were.
After Wilkins' death in 1905, The Lady's Realm wrote of how "the general public are little aware how much of [the magazine's] early success" was due to him, and that "not a few [contributors who] have since made their names in the world of letters have to thank him for placing their foot on the first rung of the ladder".
"This study contributes a lot by putting hard numbers on the energy costs of moving through both the aerial and aquatic realms," writes Daniel Ksepka of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who studies penguin evolution and was not involved with the research, in an e-mail.
Perhaps it will even allow him a mastery in the realm of writing comparable to Michael Jordan's in his domain.
"When scholars expand their realm to write about other things, their authority to do so is challenged," Ms. Garber said.
"I hope it's not The Times's policy to move this matter back into the 'he said she said' realm," he wrote.
"She was way ahead of her contemporaries in foreseeing a world where celebrity was, so to speak, the coin of the realm," Brown writes.
Fairytales and folklore are cut from the same cloth, but while the former enters the acknowledged literary realm of written text, the latter remains for the most part in the oral tradition, passed down from generation to generation.
"We knew your taste was in question when the coffee cart opened" in what had been a books-only realm, he wrote in an anonymous e-mail message, "and this confirmed it".
