Interrupting Mythic Community

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

Vasovagal syncope interrupting sleep?

Clinical data are reported for 13 patients who were referred with recurrent loss of consciousness at night interrupting their sleep. Most of the patients were women (10 of 13) with a mean age of 45 years (range 21-72 years). The histories were more consistent with vasovagal syncope than with epilepsy. This was supported by electroencephalographic and tilt test results. More polysomnographic mon...

Time-Regularized Interrupting Options

High-level skills relieve planning algorithms from low-level details. But when the skills are poorly designed for the domain, the resulting plan may be severely suboptimal. Sutton et al. (1999) made an important step towards resolving this problem by introducing a rule that automatically improves a set of skills called options. This rule terminates an option early whenever switching to another ...

Distant Episodes: A Briefing On Travels Mythic and Mundane

Advances in technology, while improving the conditions and modes of travel, have not obviated its dangers or reduced the mythical content and potential of travel experience. The present essay attempts a provisional survey of foreign travel as a recurring motif in the history of consciousness and as a mythically redolent theme in literature, film, and other forms of expression. Critical expositi...

The Mythic Conquest of Time in Faulkner's Fiction

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