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The workforce was such that a caste system evolved among the mix of African-Americans, immigrant Swedes, English, Iris ...upport of the courts, effectively banned from public transport because the system did not allow for “the transportation of smells.”

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...Are We in Vietnam?'', the rock has been given much more attention than the message because it hit us at the wrong time and in an extraordinarily sensitive spo ...ndard established than it is destroyed and superseded by another. No value system lasts for more than a few months before it must be dismantled and replaced.

...most of the thematic concerns found in the first four novels and employs a system of metaphor similar to that of ''An American Dream''. Thus, the novel is ve ...eak. Eliot Fremont-Smith, who holds a high opinion of the book's political message, points out at the outset of his review that the novel:

...Fallout and radiation had poisoned not only the earth but the entire solar system. There was no escape for man to any of the planets. The first solar voyager ...ropulsion was sufficiently powerful to take a rocket ship beyond the solar system. Not even by connecting to booster rockets already in orbit. But then it wa

...mportantly, they were isolated from each other. Not only were they given a message by the television, they remained apart from the mob that might organize a r ...signifiers has brought about the literal collapse of the American economic system, especially for those who have historically been disenfranchised. There is

...rrogated by the Soviet Division, he decides not to report this part of the message. His evasion sets in motion a prolonged series of questions: it seems suspi ...erican society more broadly with its logic of privatization and the market system, we are given a critical picture of how the divergent interests that operat

...state of grace by intimately encountering evil in many forms. But Mailer’s message, although similar in structure to ''Pilgrim’s Progress'', presents a far ...s evil, the only person involved not to be destroyed or defeated. Mailer’s message is one of carefully qualified hope. From much evil, in an external world de

...in Jack, but that it had been so brutalized and beaten down by the prison system, and it was unclear as to whether or not he would ever feel the sense of se ...cine in México after she divorced Dad, and then became a psychiatrist. Her message was: “You have to have a profession.” I finished college, and had many

...the play, certain major shifts in emphasis condition and clarify Mailer’s message, informed as it is by more than a decade of development. It should be state ...troduction, in the “Pro­logue,” of a theory central to Mailer’s developing system of metaphor: the relationship between murder and cancer:

...and perception. The hermetic position tends to view the novel as a closed system or word game, while the secular position tends to view the novel as a moral ...in other fictions (or writing) or to accept fiction ''only'' as a symbolic system of signs and relationships without connections to the world.

...nnsylvania, 1979. [2] 10,000 copies. Signed by Mailer, Includes “A special message to subscriber from Norman Mailer”.|| style="padding-left: 2em;" | $175. ...4. [2] Signed “limited” first edition. In full brown leather with “Special Message from the Author” not in Random House edition.|| style="padding-left: 2em;

...g its characters and locale from the real world, in taking for its central message the very real political problems of a real country, purports implicitly to ...word he had written, and listened with the passion of the noviate to each message he sent from the magical center in Mexico. Of all the students in the study

...lties and confusion, the voice of the moon is dualistic. At one point, its message appears to encourage his suicide (his own inner voice tells him that his li ...s: “Now there’s the individual experience—refuting the values of the whole system.”{{sfn|Campbell|1990|p=213}} By murdering Deborah, Rojack disregards cont

...ied.”{{sfn|Tolstoy|1993|p=9}} Having received an apparently simple, direct message, the reader is now forced to wonder what exactly it was that Alyosha was su ...=225}} It would be hard to find a more direct way to underline the story’s message than this familiar injunction from the ''Bible''.

...each indi­vidual has a certain latitude within which to establish a viable system of personal morality if he so chooses. In this novel, few achieve one, thou ...men in whose reality the reader believes, and destroys them all, leaving a message of despair. Lieutenant Hearn, the self­-styled liberal, is killed by direc

...ndred and twenty hours the conviction had been growing that if the warning system of one’s senses had been worth anything in the past, something was most c ...c where the media meals were served up as binder for the shattered nervous system of the masses. To the owners of that cafeteria there was something obscene

...gies for scolding you about the bitching. The way you describe the exhaust system, it makes perfect sense. So bitch away.

...s miracles, converses with the devil, trumps the Pharisees, preaches God’s message, dies on the cross, and overcomes death. Yet this Jesus is a pale reduction ...of his intelligence, wit, and strange integrity make fools of the judicial system, the media, and the whole liberal money-making machine. Gilmore, like Maile