English - Author | 1967 -
The search for inventive ways of telling the tale of Christ's birth has been going on a long time; in a way, difference was there from the start with Luke and Matthew.
Giles Foden
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In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
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Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.
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The forgiveness that comes of patient interpretation seems impossible when those nearest to your heart are threatened.
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Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.
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I spent my childhood tinkering with electronic circuits, on breadboards, as they used to be called, in particular making radio transmitters.
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At school, I got into the whole CB thing, hiding a transceiver in my study-bedroom with which I'd make appointments to meet girls in town. I wasn't good enough at physics to take it much further than fun, but I suppose there was a need to communicate.
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Since its beginnings, American writing has been in dialogue with other literatures.
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Detective fiction could not have existed without Edgar Allan Poe.
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Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for whom all national boundaries are quaint curiosities.
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