Word: deus
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...rabbit symbol plays a "deus ex machina" role similar to the oracles in Oedipus Rex and the Witches in Macbeth. And it is no injustice to mention Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Thurber in the same breath. They differ in modes of presentation, but not in depth of content...
...Reliable Deus. The trouble on the beach is only a sand-flea bite compared to the other dangers awaiting dauntless Theagenes and Charicleia. She is determined to achieve her rightful place in the world, having learned that she is actually the daughter of King Hydaspes of Ethiopia. Because Charicleia was born white, her terrified mother, Queen Persinna, had exposed her on a mountainside to escape the wrath of the King, but a kindly merchant found the infant and saw that she was transported safely to Greece. Before she can make it home. Charicleia is captured by pirates, sold into slavery...
...pejorative was to miss its point; and this last issue suggests that brash confidence and imagination needn't be limited to scientific work. "When we can seriously entertain the thought of flying to the moon or any other bit of scientific surrealism, why do we bring up that deus ex machina 'impossible. . .necessity' to limit the possibility of living imaginitively...
...four poles about which we must revolve, slowly and steadfastly. Admittedly, such an approach requires a temporary spatial schizophrenia, there being only two poles per world in accepted naturalistic schematization. Never mind, because it we are to adopt this attitude, we must merely become a kind of eternally pendent deus ex machina, which many of our genre before us have done with considerable self-gratification and emolument...
...child who wants to make a man out of her weakling father and closes in, occasionally, to prick the balloon-souls of her elders. In the end, after the hot letters have rekindled an ashen marriage and warmed the cool young beauty, Author Bowen unconvincingly produces a handsome American deus ex machina-the machina in this case being a plane that carries him abruptly from Colorado to Shannon. Irish-born Novelist Bowen writes beautifully - sometimes, in fact, so beautifully that it hurts. But she also demonstrates that it takes more than good writing to make a good book...