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...doubt, that environmental action is no longer the province of corrective prescriptions but of wholesale reconstructions. Hiding unseen but implied behind “rethink” was another “re” word: “revolution.” The conclusion—sometimes explicit but mostly tacit—is that tackling climate change is the definitional struggle of our generation...
...geological model states that we must dig beneath explicit statements to understand their original premises...
...produce an action plan, but it was light on specifics; all member countries will inject capital into banks as needed (Britain has already committed to doing so), but they didn't announce amounts or timing. It was hardly the explicit, "show us the money" announcement many investors hoped for. Similarly, the G-7 pledged to unfreeze credit markets but didn't say how or mention interbank guarantees...
...Henry James’s description of a cigar’s “red tip” seen through a window is not the point of departure for endless interpretation, but rather a way of connecting his fictional world to reality.Viewed in context, this cigar has no explicit connection to the thread of James’s “The Aspern Papers;” its inclusion, to the stingy reader, may seem superfluous and irrelevant. But a writer who wishes to create realism and truth does not stick only to necessary details. Life, Wood argues...
...again and again, seemingly without choice or control over his words. After work, he attempts to find refuge from the haunting accounts in drinking alcohol and dreams of getting laid, but the quotes that have invaded his mind also cut into the mundane; his thoughts jerk without warning into explicit renditions of the testimonies. As accounts of death, cruelty, and violence become an unshakeable, inescapable part of the narrator, wreaking havoc on his psyche, he too shares in the same experience of the Indians who survived the genocide. Just like the witness to genocide, the reader of genocide becomes...