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Robinson Crusoe

The Rise of Silas Lapham Robinson Crusoe Roman Classics Romeo and Juliet The Scarlet Letter A Separate Peace Shakespeare s Comedies Shakespeare s Histories Shakespeare s Minor Plays Shakespeare s Sonnets Shakespeare s Tragedies Shaw s Pygmalion Arms... Silas Mamer... [Pg.418]

Here (5) is an internal relation between A and B, whereas (4) would be an external relation according to the tentative definition. Yet any attempt to define what it means to have power must involve a reference to other people. In one simple conceptualization of power, my amount of allround power is defined as the number of people over tidumt I have control, so that the relational character of power appears explicitly. In another, more complex characterization my power depends on my contrd over resources in which other people have an interest - also a relationally defined property. Similarly, the possession of money must also, if spelled out, involve a reference to other people who are prepared to accept my money as payment for goods. Wittgenstein remarks somewhere that it is impossible to make sense of the statement "It is five o clock on the sun", and it would also be nonsensical to say that Robinson Crusoe on his island could be rich by the mere possession of gold coins. [Pg.94]

In the narrative, Poe gives a twist to folk humor since the scarabeus is no bugbear but a clue to Captain Kidd s cache. Whereas Mike Fink shot off a black s heel whenever he disliked its shape, it is Jupiter s task to flog his master when he happens to lose his mind, thereby also reversing the myth of Robinson Crusoe and Friday. [Pg.59]

Solutes partition into lipid bilayers. Robinson Crusoe and his trusty friend Friday are stranded on a desert island and need to conserve their whiskey. Crusoe, an anesthesiologist, realizes that the effect of alcohol, as with other anesthetics, is felt when the alcohol reaches a particular critical concentration, co, in the membranes of neurons. Crusoe and Friday have only a supply of propanol, butanol, and pcntanol, and a table of their free energies of transfer for T = 300 K. [Pg.298]


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