tailieunhanh - ONE - LETTER WORDS A Dictionary phần 2

Tham khảo tài liệu 'one - letter words a dictionary phần 2', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | The following quotation from Milorad Pavic s novel Dictionary of the Khazars has some marked similarities to the previous passage The Khazars saw letters in people s dreams and in them they looked for primordial man for Adam Cadmon. . . . They believed that to every person belongs one letter of the alphabet that each of these letters constitutes part of Adam Cadmon s body on earth and that these letters converge in people s dreams and come to life in Adam s body. Here too the author believes part of our brain links us to our ancient ancestors. In this case it goes all the way back to Adam the archetype of the first human. Letters of the alphabet appear in this passage also. They are the stuff that dreams are made of. They also symbolize the very building blocks of our existence. Science fiction authors like Pat Cadigan Mindplayers and Greg Bear foresee the day when scientists will be able to enter into a person s mindscape via high-tech tools. In Bear s novel Queen of Angels psychologists step into the mind of a murderer and find a mental city on whose sidewalks misshapen letters are scribbled and on whose walls posters of everchanging meaningless letters are plastered. Until the future that Bear describes arrives we must be content to imagine the hills and valleys that make up the landscape of the mind. But we aren t without a guide. The letters of the alphabet are our passport and our road map. The authors quoted above seem to suggest that the alphabet spells out the answers to all of life s questions. We must simply find the right combinations. xxv Contents INTRODUCTION A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR CREDITS COVER COPYRIGHT ABOUT THE PUBLISHER