1.An introduction or preface, especially a poem recited to introduce a play. 2.An introduction or introductory chapter, as to a novel. 3.An introductory act, event, or period. [Middle Englishprolog, from Old Frenchprologue, from Latinprologus, from Greekprologos:pro-,before; seepro-2+logos...
Google Scholar Henri Bergson,Creative Evolution, trs. Arthur Mitchell (London: Macmillan, 1954) pp. 300–1. Google Scholar Download references Copyright information © 1986 Paul Coates About this chapter Cite this chapter Coates, P. (1986). Prologue: Words after Speech. In: Words After Speech....
Meanwhile our farm dances: the heavy conifer trees sway slowly, while the sagebrush and thistles quiver, bowing before every puff and pocket of air. Behind me a gentle hill slopes upward and stitches itself to the mountain base. If I look up, I can see the dark form of the Indian ...
Some stories really benefit from a prologue. However, prologues can also be done poorly. You only have a few minutes to grab viewers’ attention, so if you jam in a prologue that shouldn’t be there, then you could lose your audience before your story really gets started. ...
Of half a dozen versions of the concept that Bergson puts forwardbefore discarding them, this one is close to Stephen's:If something has always existed, nothing must always have served as its substratum orreceptacle, and is therefore eternally prior. A glass may have always been full, but th...
When you activate HondaLink® connected by OnStar* services in your Prologue, you get access to convenient features like remote commands that can lock or unlock doors and set the temperature in your vehicle before you’re even in it. Plus, you can monitor your charge status and check your...
Kokila despite her widowhood is treated favorably by her guardians and she is a sensitive educated woman who is as much a member of the family in every aspect as she keeps the fiscal accounts of the peasant serfs and looks after the household run by an army of servants. Into this perfect...
a joke about a political figure involved in an event that infact took place before or after the time when this individual was in power. Butthis error, this“untruth,”may have little bearing on whether the joke is funnyor not; indeed, the point of the joke could actually be this empirica...
What happens after Antigone is arrested? What time of day does Antigone begin? How is Antigone like King Phineus' first wife? Was Oedipus alive in Antigone? Is Antigone a woman? Is Polynices older than Antigone? Does Antigone come before or after Oedipus at Colonus?
though others had seen him before. After a few minutes, he departed, apparently satisfied with what he had observed. Later, the young woman would ask her co-workers, “Who was that old gentleman this morning?” One told her that she did not know his name, but that he used to work ...