A Song of Destiny

Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: A Paragon of Trauma Fiction

Morrison’s Song of Solomon could be viewed as a paragon of trauma fiction. Since no narrative of trauma can be told in a linear way, Morrison tries to depict the overwhelming power of trauma through a non-linear narrative, episodic delivery, and flashbacks. Accordingly, the readers are compelled to concoct the disjointed and fragmented memories in order to solve the riddle of the text, in which...

Destiny of Insignificance

Reap a destiny: divagations of a Taoist

physical state, arrangement and access to the records. Some of the historical sketches are tantalizingly incomplete, since so little is known ofthe firms. Descriptions vary from single items to quantities of material-often completely unsorted. Archives of many firms are scattered in several locations: those of British Xylorite Co. Ltd. (for example) are at Hackney Archives Dept., Suffolk Record...

Why genes aren't destiny.

The remote, snow-swept expanses of northern Sweden are an unlikely place to begin a story about cutting-edge genetic science. The kingdom's northernmost county, Norrbotten, is nearly free of human life; an average of just six people live in each square mile. And yet this tiny population can reveal a lot about how genes work in our everyday lives. Norrbotten is so isolated that in the 19th centu...

Geometry and Destiny

SUMMARY The recognition that the cosmological constant may be non-zero forces us to re-evaluate standard notions about the connection between geometry and the fate of our Universe. An open Universe can recollapse, and a closed Universe can expand forever. As a corollary, we point out that there is no set of cosmological observations we can perform that will unambiguously allow us to determine w...