The Hymn Tune 'Helmsley'

A Christmas hymn.

Angela’s image came in a rush, escaping the repressed confines of Loretta’s subconscious. She appeared as an emaciated youth, track marks on her arms, eyes blank and cadaverous — as if she had come home one last time, still stinking and sleep-deprived after a stint on Godknows-which downtown street. Sitting in her rocking chair, Loretta stopped knitting and set aside the almost-finished sweater...

A Hymn to Neurosurgery and Neuroscience

June 2005 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e214 “Marketeers prove...every scientifi c term you use represents two thousand readers putting down the magazine and turning on a rerun of I Love Lucy,” says a world-weary editor in David Mitchell’s Russian doll of a novel Cloud Atlas. The marketeers of Ian McEwan (if he has any) clearly don’t agree. His latest novel, Saturday, is saturated with medical and sci...

The Christ - Hymn in Philippians 2 : 5 - 11

s 9:3 (1964-65) no. 1021. It should be emphasized that Geyser's interpretation of the hymn (whether or not it be regarded as 'heretical') is not substantiated by Martin's exegesis. 41 At the same time, I should not want to understand μορφή purely in terms of role or outward form. Incidentally, Martin does not seem to have faced up fully to the arguments brought forward by Käsemann for understan...

Epiphany in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter and the Odyssey

Requirements and Risk: Singing From the Same Hymn-Sheet

Failing to elicit requirements is as much of a risk in the traditional, negative sense as successfully defining requirements is a positive step towards successful systems development. The discipline of risk management has long since had to deal with the spectre of emergent risk and its inherent lack of predictability. Just as risk management considers how any number of vulnerabilities in a syst...