A certain kind of talk is ubiquitous among both philosophers and so-called "ordinary people": talk of one phenomenon generating or giving rise to another, or talk of one phenomenon being based in or constructed from another. For example, your computer screen is built of atoms in a complex configuration, and the picture on the screen is based in the local illumination of various...(展开全部)

The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its ...(展开全部)

The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in 1946, Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its ...(展开全部)

The enigmatic origins of the stranger that Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the weather. Could he be Jack Frost?

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After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote THE NIGHT WATCH, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hun...(展开全部)

After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote THE NIGHT WATCH, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hun...(展开全部)

After her award-winning trilogy of Victorian novels, Sarah Waters turned to the 1940s and wrote THE NIGHT WATCH, a tender and tragic novel set against the backdrop of wartime Britain. Shortlisted for both the Orange and the Man Booker, it went straight to number one in the bestseller chart. In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hun...(展开全部)

帕甘﹒肯尼迪（Pagan Kennedy） 《纽约时报杂志》前创新专栏作家，著有《纽约时报》推荐读物《黑色利文斯通》《巴尼斯和诺贝尔发现的挑刺手》以及其他8部作品，曾获得麻省理工学院的奈特科学新闻学者奖，在数十家报纸和杂志上发表过文章。肯尼迪现居住于马萨诸塞州萨默维尔市。

帕甘﹒肯尼迪（Pagan Kennedy） 《纽约时报杂志》前创新专栏作家，著有《纽约时报》推荐读物《黑色利文斯通》《巴尼斯和诺贝尔发现的挑刺手》以及其他8部作品，曾获得麻省理工学院的奈特科学新闻学者奖，在数十家报纸和杂志上发表过文章。肯尼迪现居住于马萨诸塞州萨默维尔市。