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Nature is cruel
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 25/06/2012
» The theme of shrinking people and having them prey on naturally little predators has been done in novels and films as thrillers and comedies. After chapters and scenes of suspense, they've survived their perils and returned to their true size. It's up to the authors and directors to keep us uncertain of the outcome until the end.
Universal cheating
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 14/05/2012
» Many of us profess to know it all, but do we? Not all of us, surely. And though there are among us who know a good deal, knowing it all is a bit much. Not even Aristotle or Da Vinci, Newton or Einstein were that brilliant.
Tourists beware
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/03/2012
» When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tried to put Sherlock Holmes to rest a century ago, more than one literary critic noted that he was running out of the plots. The last involved a killer on stilts, which raised yawns as well as eyebrows. Yet in the hundred years since, other crime-thriller authors and scriveners of TV detective series demonstrated that there are no end of plots.
What if JFK lived?
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 30/01/2012
» There are two aspects to time travel, travelling to another time; making a change before returning to the starting point. That change leads to other changes and those to other changes still. HG Wells noted this in The Time Machine, Hollywood in its Back to The Future series.