MR James – a master of the form – delivers a nasty chill in that prissy little voice of his, and Oliver Onions casts writer's block as part ghost story, part psycho-sexual breakdown.
If Wastwater is partly about climate change, it also replays themes familiar from earlier works – sexual dislocation and the breakdown of families, characters struggling to find their place, an image of England as an edgeland scarred by A-roads, hemmed in by airport glide paths.
Explanations that invoke sexual or relationship breakdown may explain such advantages.
Dahan's camera stops at the bedroom door for the romantic moments (showing Piaf having sex would be unthinkable, almost incestuous) yet for the non-sexual scenes of breakdown and discord, it blunders in to witness the mess - including the spent needles - all over the bedroom floor.
(2009b) documenting a breakdown in sexual selection in sand gobies, a species with strong sexual selection on males, sexual selection was disrupted due to the feminization of males.
The highest-profile inclusion is leftfield short-story writer George Saunders, with McBride's novel, a fractured stream-of-consciousness account of a young woman's sexual abuse and emotional breakdown in the tradition of Samuel Beckett, the most "daunting" book.
Don't try to grow up as fast as we did.' " "All this" includes a death, evictions, a sexual assault, a mental breakdown and the surreal experience of living in a home that also served as the entrance to two neighbors' apartments.
A conservative theologian, Pope Benedict repeatedly warned that contraception was one of a host of trends contributing to a "breakdown in sexual morality".
Therefore, the reason for the communication breakdown causing sexual isolation between the two L. distinguendus lineages remains to be clarified.
Our results indicate that sexual conflict over spermatophore breakdown and male female molecular interactions are likely to be important in Lepidoptera.
