They lack, too, the narrative arc of crime stories; they begin, by definition, after the fact, in that last car of the train of cause-and-effect.
Novels and other narratives always show the same thing about secrets -- more than anything, secrets are just missing links in a train of cause and effect that inevitably makes its pattern manifest.
But that's not really a mystery, because the virus divides, and by a simple train of cause-and-effect, its toxins are amplified until the immune system is overwhelmed.
Yet lack of regret, refusal to reconsider, doesn't alter the train of cause and effect; certainty that decisions were right, no matter how powerful -- and the imperturbable perfection of Cheney's certainty is nothing short of dazzling -- cannot obscure evidence that they were wrong.
In fixing motorcycles you come up with several imagined trains of cause and effect for manifest symptoms, and you judge their likelihood before tearing anything down.
Then, in the final race of the day, the Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup for amateur riders, Jamie Codd claimed his fourth victory in the race on board the Gordon Elliott-trained Cause of Causes (9-2).
That train of thought caused me to reflect personally about growing graciously.
In the decade following World War I, some armies accepted the superiority of the defense as a critical characteristic of modern warfare a train of thought that caused the Maginot Line to be constructed in France.
Russia's financial collapse last August set off a train of events that caused damage as far away as Latin America, but most of the delicate economies of Central Europe and the former Soviet empire have managed to stay upright against the baleful Russian wind.
A train of stimuli thus caused intracellular calcium in these cells to be significantly elevated for many tens of seconds.
