Word: intuitionism
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This time around, though, few will challenge Clancy's claim that simple research and intuition give his books their uncanny sense of realism.
A. Apparently, there is some sort of intuition. We don't know where it comes from, but we have it. From the age of nine, I knew I was going to be a writer, although I didn't know what I was going to write about. Shortly after that, I...
The deepest change may be a planetary intuition that military war is pointless. Except in atavistic places like the Middle East and Ireland, conquering territory is a fruitless and counterproductive exercise. Why conquer land? The Soviets have more trouble than they can manage with their nationalities. The new world's...
Harvard's Samuel Huntington confirms this Soviet intuition in the current Foreign Affairs. The real cause of the decline of nations, he argues, is not the now fashionable notion of "imperial overstretch" but the phenomenon of creeping inflexibility, what might be called industrial sclerosis -- precisely the loss of that ability...
That last touch -- the voice from Limbo -- is Davies' only deviation from strict narrative plausibility, and it is a minor one at that. Hoffmann cannot intercede in the proceedings; he is just another spectator along with the readers. Davies does not need spooks or disembodied souls to demonstrate that even...