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Today, in the world of online social networks, the oracle's advice might be show thyself.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities? Dr. Jim Taylor 2011
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Today, in the world of online social networks, the oracle's advice might be show thyself.
Dr. Jim Taylor: Is Technology Stealing Our (Self) Identities? Dr. Jim Taylor 2011
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The oracle's decay and disease is not a token of that wrongness; rather it is a dark mirroring of Jokla's dehumanisation, active spite in place of passive despair, physical weakness in place of psychological weakness.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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So instead, I think, the boulomaic modality "should not happen" that we associate with the oracle's sickness and spite becomes an undercurrent which binds with and reinforces the sense of "should not happen" that we attach to Jokla's imprisonment.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Only in the oracle's interruption, answering the supplicant's question as Jokla is only just about to relate it to her, do we have the suggestion of a potential breach of nomology, and even here it is ambiguous.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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The negation refuses us one predicted ending with Jokla liberated by the oracle's death.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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It comments upon it in the parallel it offers in the oracle's imprisonment.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Either way the interwoven threads of their different types of Otherness are tied neatly together into a loop where Jokla is the oracle's past, the oracle Jokla's future (a future to be accepted or rejected).
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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Oh, and everyone listened to Ernie, either through his column in the Times, or in person, when he deigned to mingle and pontificate from his oracle's booth at Sardi's.
The chrysalis stage of Gwendolyn Neuhauser (Revised again) 2010
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The oracle's answer doesn't quite read as a breach of nomology; when she says, no, he has another seven years of exile to suffer, we could rationalise the oracle's abilities as psychological insight rather than predictive foresight, a knowledge less of the future than of what needs to be said.
Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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