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Fundamentally, the hero in each is cast by Fate into the role of combat with unnatural forces that the narrative will gradually reveal as being behind all those "small dessicating hints"/"small sour lesions".
Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008
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It is strongly influenced by the annual movements of the inter-tropical convergence zone: the resulting dessicating prevailing winds are north-easterly.
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Fundamentally, the hero in each is cast by Fate into the role of combat with unnatural forces that the narrative will gradually reveal as being behind all those "small dessicating hints"/"small sour lesions".
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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In both modes of fiction the uncanny already is happening in one sense -- this is why we have these small dessicating hints of wrongness, these small sour lesions on the world -- that which must not happen has already begun.
Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008
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Drier semi-deciduous mid-altitude forests with trees such as Triplochiton scleroxylon, Piptadeniastrum africanum, and Parkia bicolor are found at the northern end of the range on the slopes more exposed to dessicating winds from the desert.
Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008
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What Clute calls "small dessicating hints that the world has lost its wholeness" might well be seen in the exact same terms he applies to Horror, as "small sour lesions on the world."
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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A home humidifier can return dry indoor winter air to a less dessicating state, a favor for which your eyes, throat, skin, and—if you suffer from asthma—lungs will be most grateful.
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In both modes of fiction the uncanny already is happening in one sense -- this is why we have these small dessicating hints of wrongness, these small sour lesions on the world -- that which must not happen has already begun.
Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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What Clute calls "small dessicating hints that the world has lost its wholeness" might well be seen in the exact same terms he applies to Horror, as "small sour lesions on the world."
Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008
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This story, which is a genuine good news story, reminds us that there will probably, given the arid and dessicating nature of the sands, be more such discoveries in the centuries to come: out there must still lie trucks, tanks, crashed aircraft and other impedimenta of war that have lain untouched since the moment of conflict, islands of history in the landscape.
A Good News Story 2007
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