She might have arrived anywhere: all that was certain was her own self, lying on her side, her salty smell and her warmth, her knees pulled up to her skinny chest inside the cocoon of her brushed-nylon nightdress.
For my initiation into Poe, however, I have to go back to my 10-year-old self, lying in the old County Infirmary recovering from a bungled appendix operation.
By 1918, when Baum published "The Tin Woodman of Oz," Ms. Loncraine writes, the wartime Woodman "finds his old human head in a box, and talks to it, wondering where his true self lies".
Memoir is a battle to become someone; when the potential and actual selves lay down their arms, when they begin to commiserate with and complement each other, the drama abates.
The irony, of course, is that we also dream of enjoying idleness, imagining a hazy vision of our future selves lying on a beach doing sweet nothing.
Look inward, Ms. Midler that has always been where your truest self lies.
Unmated fog-2 (q71 ) females generate no self-sperm, lay very few unfertilized oocytes since the ovulation signal from sperm is missing, and produce no self progeny (McCarter et al. 1999).
A temptation to power and self-exaltation lay in the late Jewish promise of the coming of the Messiah Son of man.
As Wright tells it, behind the promise of self-help lay extortion, intimidation and a kind of imprisonment that makes one think of Soviet history.
It was obvious at the outset that Ashley's overwhelming self-interest lay in ensuring the staff scheme operated as an effective motivational tool.
