In the wake, or aftermath, of a death, it's traditional in many cultures to hold a wake, a vigil for the dead. There's a third meaning of wake, too, you know: it's the waves that a boat leaves behind as it slices through the water. And that's not all......
To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. It way awake my bounty further. No sunny ...
Wakes have evolved over history. In ancient times, wakes were the practice of sitting vigil over a body immediately after a person’s death. There is a common misconception that the practice of sitting up with a body through the night was to make sure they were dead and not just sleeping....
While commentators emphasize how this manner of writing can communicate multiple levels of meaning simultaneously, Hayman and Norris contend that its purpose is as much to obscure and disable meaning as to expand it. Hayman writes that access to the work's "tenuous narratives" may be achieved on...
Amazon: A Case Study In Textualism And The Fixed-Meaning Canon 14 Wake Forest L. Rev. Online 112 Michael Showalter[1] Introduction A recent Second Circuit panel failed to heed the fixed-meaning rule of statutory interpretation, and its flawed opinion highlights the rule’s importance to the...
This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” New Living Translation for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said, “Awake, O sleeper, rise up from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” ...
Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299108205. Borg, Ruben (2007). The Measureless Time of Joyce, Deleuze and Derrida[permanent dead link]. London: Continuum. Burrell, Harry; Schork, R. J. (1996). Narrative Design in Finnegans Wake: The ...
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The “disaster” for Blanchot is “imminence” that rather spells out for me the metaphor of the cemetery and its places of mood around which Pater, for one, has written in Plato and Platonism.“Tis the dead things that are after all the most entirely at rest”, and consistently associates...
AND JOURNEY OF REMEMBRANCE Martin Goldsmith Read by the author Simultaneous release of Da Capo Press hardcover 9780306823220 n A many-faceted tale, filled with intrigue, heroism, historical revelations, and self-revelation n Sure to find an audience in Goldsmith's millions of current Sirius XM and...