But today, we're musing on a different kind of standoff: liquid vs.
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It is an eclectic, if scattershot, musing on attitudes to life and death.
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Back in 2008, musing on the life she was about to enter, Mrs.
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The arms race comment was not Mr. Trump's only unsettling musing on defense.
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So there I was, reading a 27-year-old magazine and musing on Andy.
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From musing on the history of tariff policy in the US to praising Rep.
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"There's no free lunch," he said, musing on the trade-offs we make with technology.
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There's no musing on humanity or ethereal symbolism, like there was in Steven Spielberg's Jaws.
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At its core, Black Panther is not a musing on the best method against universal racism.
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But most of the album has her musing on more private, domestic matters and looking inward.
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El Camino withholds its judgment of his actions, never musing on whether he deserves a happy ending.
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You can use details and it's not cryptic, it's not this musing on philosophy, it's conversational almost.
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"Going offline," he tweeted, after a short musing on whether the social media site is worth it.
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Victoria M. Massie is a freelance writer and anthropologist in DC musing on pop culture and politics.
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With equal parts humour and awe, animals trundle across the space, musing on the universality of things.
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Yours in Sisterhood has people reading the letters aloud, musing on feminism now versus in the 1970s.
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Hart's life and work provides the starting point for Larson's musing on the nature of time and creativity.
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He is sitting alone on a bench and, one imagines, musing on the mother that he lost. ♦
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The lawsuit centered on Musk musing on Twitter about taking the company private, saying he had "secured" funding.
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It is moreso an exploration of the dark side of Blackness than it is a cultural musing on race.
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As expected from the guys who invented punk, it's an extremely #relevant musing on gun control, politics, and Twitter.
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"I dumped the blunt guts in the organic trash can," he said, musing on whether they would be composted.
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Barnett and Vile trade verses, musing on the life of a solitary songwriter, before laying harmonies over one another.
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A wrinkled, old man lifted weights in the gym as a younger face hovered — clearly a musing on age.
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This isn't a purely theoretical musing on whether the forthcoming FLOTUS is someone Ford would want to wear his designs.
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Together they are the hosts of The Black Joy Mixtape podcast, a bi-weekly musing on politics and Black culture.
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The resulting power dynamic can send one careening through memories of childhood confrontations or musing on our country's ideological schism.
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"I wanted her to swim and leave," Sánchez says in a documentary screened in the exhibition, musing on the performance.
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" Musing on potential storylines, she adds, "There's a lot of places you can go — you can bring it back to Russia.
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He wrote daily, documenting his personal impressions of the people and places he encountered and musing on art, philosophy and science.
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Mr. Meyer himself spent the better part of one session musing on the width of the mullions in the new windows.
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And, because this is a horror novel, he permits himself the occasional light musing on the nature of good and evil.
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While Vanderpump continually denies any definitive severing of ties, it's hard to watch this season without at least musing on the possibility.
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It's a musing on masculinity intertwined with politics: Americans who can't bring themselves to fight are just as bad as the Libyans.
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Elsewhere, musing on another Feldman piece, he considered the agency that its score gives performers to stretch out the spaces between notes.
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If those other options weren't so tempting, this review might be a musing on the simple beauty of the one-dish restaurant.
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A.J. MACKINNONEly, Cambridgeshire Regarding Johnson's musing on tabloid headlines (August 26th), my personal favourite is "Hide and seek champ found dead in cupboard".
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It's ostensibly a musing on Avey Tare's heritage — the artist can trace his lineage back to a generation of bakers in the Ukraine.
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I heard in "Karawane" — its music more than its words — a sly musing on today's religious tensions and so-called clashes of civilizations.
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Bey's performance was powerful — an artistic musing on violence that, like her album, also showcase her showmanship and untouchable talent as an artist.
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Lucci makes music with heart, often musing on the deeper implications of his lines or taking an unexpected turn into profound emotional territory.
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A narrator — here the actor Simon Callow — stands in for the composer, musing on the power of art as medicine for the soul.
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The pair then moved from Complex to their own podcast platform, "Bodega Boys," cracking jokes and musing on their lives in New York.
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" So did right-wing London Mayor Boris Johnson, for a column musing on "the part-Kenyan President's ancestral dislike of the British empire.
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And there are some who cannot make up their minds, musing on a "Canapore" option, a hybrid of the Canada and Singapore models.
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Great thinkers from Einstein to Chairman Mao have long wandered this territory, musing on the situation of the little particle in the big crowd.
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The other thing I've been thinking, almost musing on, is that originally the net was where we counterculture people went find a safe haven.
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Rather than spending their time musing on the meaning of education, he and his peers have been drilled in the craft of the classroom.
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For the last three years, he's been looking at the palm trees and tropical plants in the area, musing on our experience of them.
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Bruce Springsteen's protest song to Donald Trump "Imagine," John Lennon People usually think this is about: A gentle musing on peace and global unity.
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On Time BASEL, Switzerland — It is a watchmaker's job to mark the passage of time; musing on its passage typically falls to the poets.
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Musing on the future of the economy earlier this year, Bill Gates warned of smart machines replacing human workers and suggested a tax on robots.
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Musing on how it all came to this, after years of hope for a new way, Mr. Royesh expressed regret and anger over missed opportunities.
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While musing on possible reasons, he questioned whether the HTLV-1 seen among indigenous communities in central Australia could be a variant that transmits more easily.
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" He stated prophetically, "I know I will never have a hit single in America," and when musing on why, offered that "it has to be censorship.
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When the Met theme was announced in November, there was a lot of scratching of heads and musing on social media about what attendees would wear.
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This album, like Oxnard, is a musing on the sounds he was raised on and the West Coast singer is begging for the trappings of home.
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The opera presents opposing arguments about science and religion but doesn't take a stance on either, concluding instead with a vague and uncompelling musing on the afterlife.
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Samantha Bee's first "Full Frontal" show was tight, sharp and funny, our reviewer said, musing on whether she could become the comic voice of the presidential campaign.
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It follows the release last month of Frank Ocean's "Endless," a 45-minute "visual album" and musing on the artistic process that was also exclusive to Apple.
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Suddenly old school friends whose previous musical endeavors had barely stretched beyond Kasabian, were musing on when the score might see the light of day on vinyl.
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"I wonder how that worked in the Renaissance," Mr. Chihuly said, musing on what the ambitious denizens of the 15th-century art world said about one another.
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It's an effortless, shimmery wonder about pop stars when it wants to be, and a stomach-dropping musing on humanity when it chooses to shed that glamour.
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Ads in the "Power Is" campaign featured Hunter S. Thompson, Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, Marlee Matlin, George Clinton, and Dave Stewart musing on the meaning of the concept.
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Early songs like "The World Is Soft as Lace," found Lawrence presenting a gentler face to universe, musing on the ways he'd help change society if he could.
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When musing on Twitter about what inspires people about space exploration, Laura Seward Forczyk, the author of the upcoming "Rise of the Space Age Millennials," offered an interesting insight.
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"Musing on analogue forms of communication in the digital present, each painstaking facsimile invokes the marriage of form and function at an inherently personal scale," read the show notes.
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However, Kardashian West bemoaned Wednesday that her last one has now broken; she is musing on Twitter whether to stick with BlackBerry or go to Samsung or another phone.
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Even among themselves, Mr. Cervony and Mr. Kray remained devotedly on topic, musing on Dylan mythology, comparing obscure solo Keith Richards songs and anticipating a potential Desert Trip concert film.
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The column was part of a larger musing on sex, which he once viewed as "best achieved through luck, guile, strategy or coercion," until sexual abuse discussions changed his views.
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Some stick to that, musing on who would buy these pricy condos bordering the park, or the meaning of the Statue of Liberty in an era of Trump's travel bans.
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The Season 813 premiere gets the nod for its closing musical number, in which Tina rides a unicorn while musing on "the right number of boys" in a girl's life.
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Critic Jerry Saltz called it an "aesthetic act of karaoke, identity theft, body-snatching," before musing on the significance of Triple Candie's approach and the curators' handling of Noland's work.
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Hopefully by this time next summer, you'll be able to languish in the sun reading Edgar Allan Poe and musing on the futility of life while reclining in your inflatable coffin.
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At least five of the new songs could have been pinched from bootlegged sessions for "The White Album" or "Abbey Road", with the author musing on an acoustic guitar or piano.
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This time, rather than musing on Peter Abernathy, she's focusing her efforts on Walter, the host with a milk fetish who went apeshit in the saloon after killing his partner, Rebus.
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Or did Patterson reverse his usual process, merely tinkering and smoothing after Clinton, musing on his years in office, had brought forth a plot—in essence, his reverie of responsible power?
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" Musing on both artist's approach to psychedelics, Ross also writes that Ocean and Musgraves believe they're "something that can alter them for the better, something that can strip back some layers.
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Liberated from the burdens of his history, Boratin spends his time brooding at home or wandering around Istanbul, encountering strangers (and occasionally friends) and musing on the nature of the self.
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But even though the songs he co-created serve as the film's centerpieces, and despite lengthy musing on the tour's theatricality, my father vanishes from the story before it truly begins.
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Jobim and de Moraes's "The Girl from Ipanema", a languid musing on the wistful contemplation of beauty by age, had its first performance, by Mr Gilberto, in a Rio nightclub in 1962.
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" Musing on the institution of marriage, Dewan said, "I don't think there should be any expectation, any sort of 'You're bonded to me for the rest of your life,' thick and thin.
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I was already musing on this topic before the segment that aired late in the show, when Recording Academy president Neil Portnow launched into a brief broadside against Spotify and its ilk.
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The movie raises questions about how the pairs choose to talk or not talk to each other, even while inviting inadvertent musing on how all the characters can afford such nice apartments.
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Herzog seems less in his element as an interviewer than he is when parsing historical footage, including musing on a brief handshake between Gorbachev and Reagan at their 1986 summit in Reykjavik.
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Mr. Whitaker has expressed skepticism about the scope of Mr. Mueller's investigation — including musing on national TV about shutting it down by starving it of funds — and has even questioned Marbury v.
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Trump was his usual self -- making a series of fact-challenged (and fact-free) claims, musing on his own greatness and playing the role he was born to play: Being Donald Trump.
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A horror movie in miniature, eerie and tense throughout, "Teddy Perkins" reveals itself slowly as a musing on generational trauma and artistic genius, heavy on allusions — and eventually, explicit references — to Michael Jackson.
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And I thought the musing on the limitations of human consciousness got back to some of the stuff the show did well in season one that has been set aside in season two.
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"All these maybe, maybe, maybe, maybes / About to say f*ck it and start squeezing without aiming," the rapper vents, after musing on the various shooters who might have been behind the trigger.
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Yes, the place that is commonly known as a platform for musing on your decision to leave New York City or close your startup has detailed its growth on becoming so much more.
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Skulls were worth collecting because genius, thought some at that time, would be evident in the remains of a man like Shakespeare, whose character Hamlet famously holds a skull while musing on death.
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Gifted with the ability to make us empathize with an alcoholic, self-centered, depressive talking horse, he has extended his talents to musing on another character from an alternate animated universe: Marge Simpson.
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She came up with the concept four years ago while struggling with a new play and musing on the adage that writers often have to "kill their darlings" as part of the process.
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At times, he sings from the perspective of a dog in paradise ("Dog's Mind"); others, he's musing on whether something should be considered "this" or "that" ("This Is That"), whatever the hell that means.
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I made that point on Twitter in the context of Nairobi's appalling pollution, paralyzed traffic and largely-unlighted slums: Musing on #CEM7 #cleanenergy conclave in context of paralysis, darkness & pollution I saw in Nairobi.
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For T's culture issue, we asked 15 rising and established playwrights to create original scripts around the theme "America 2024," musing on what the world will look and feel like five years from now.
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Mr. Ripstein's hallucinatory, deliberate style is engrossing, and "Bleak Street" is full of strange, vivid images and scenes, especially when the twins are together, practicing wrestling moves or musing on the demands of their craft.
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Tarell Alvin McCraney's script meditates on how money can corrupt the purity of the sport, all while musing on the racial undertones at play in a league largely dominated by black athletes and white owners.
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He jumped in the water to play with her, musing on a conversation he and his wife, Maggie, had all the time: where can we take Morgan to have fun where she can feel comfortable?
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Each 12-minute episode of the series finds Pera musing on one of the smaller things in life, like taking a hike, going to the grocery store, or waiting for someone at the beauty salon.
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If I don't answer the bell On weekends in summer, I'm in the garden, Strolling the shady path beneath the maples, Musing on the difference between a life Deficient in incident and a life uncluttered.
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For example, Jack London wrote The Iron Heel (1908), musing on a future United States where democracy had turned to oligarchy, and Mark Twain's 1889 novel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court involved time travel.
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The entire experience felt like a good dinner party, with a topic bouncing from person to person, each bringing their own experience and knowledge to bear, creating something richer than one person musing on a subject.
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On my birthday, Zach Quinto and I had taken a trip to Berlin, and we were both very melancholy, and we started musing on the fact that we were gonna die, and how sad that was.
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The first anniversary of Trump's election Wednesday coincides with a crucial visit to China, with Asian media networks musing on the president's foreign policy and strategy towards Asia and which direction it could take in future.
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Be Good and Rewatch It brings its three-part breakdown of M. Night Shyamalan's Eastrail 177 trilogy— Unbreakable, Split, Glass—to a close with a conversation about the director's latest musing on the nature of superheroes.
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Yet, with her guidance and thoughtfulness, Prato pushes against the surface, locating herself within and the people and landscape of Hawai'i without buying into visitor thinking — this is not a musing on mai tais and hula events.
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No, I'm musing on this little story because it's where I started to figure out the thing I'm sure you already know, since you basically say so in your letter: You can't run away from your problems.
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"I'm hopelessly in love with this city," he said as he ambled down Thompson Street recently, stopping at a store with chess pieces in its window and musing on the chess obsession of his idol, Marcel Duchamp.
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A musing on the folly of hubris, it links back to the classicism of the first room's Apollo head; here, the Greek god is depicted skinning the inverted Marsyas for daring to challenge him to a musical contest.
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Michal Marczak's "All These Sleepless Nights," from Poland, seductively blurs the boundary between the two as it follows a young man pursuing parties, friendship and sex and musing on his pursuits in self-conscious, self-revealing voice-over.
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Pappas writes a monthly poetry column for Women's Running magazine, musing on topics including the sublime scent of trail running ("steeped on me like tea") and the sweet pain of sprinting (her insides "gasping screeching flapping baby bird beaks").
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Whether playing a piano partly destroyed in the 2011 tsunami or musing on the relationship between nature and music, Mr. Sakamoto makes for fascinating company, and this film is markedly accessible when it comes to showing his working process.
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She told me Daybreaker had taken her on a journey and that she had learned to be more accepting, citing one event in particular where she was musing on the relative attractiveness of people in the crowd and suddenly caught herself.
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"So it's us grappling with the big, big things, like space and time and our age, and the ages of people around us," Cumming explains, before musing on the multiple closures of local DIY stages on which they cut their teeth.
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To celebrate the two-headed thing of beauty that is the Swimmers in full flow, THUMP UK's Josh Baines and Angus Harrison put their heads together for their own B2B, musing on why these two are the best DJs around.
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One hundred years after first musing on, tinkering with, and ultimately leaving behind what may be his most personal work, J.R.R. Tolkien's Beren and Lúthien was finally released in bookstores across the globe on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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Our freckled, sportswear-clad hero roams around the San Andreas landscape, shooting bazookas at cops off moving trains and smashing souped-up, trance-blasting convertibles into mountains, musing on friendship and loss and wondering where his friends could have gone.
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"In one common [Buddhist] exercise, a student is given three raisins, or a tangerine, to spend 10 or 20 minutes gazing at, musing on, holding and patiently masticating," the New York Times wrote in 2012, describing the worst dinner companion ever.
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After coffee at the Old World-style Le Square Trousseau restaurant and pastries at Blé Sucré bakery, Mr. Tondo strolled the streets, musing on fried veal, poached calf brains and other old-school dishes to which he adds contemporary embellishments.
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In a series of intimate exchanges with author and longtime friend Jonathan Safran Foer, Natalie Portman opens up about her life as an actress, director and mother, musing on the passage of time while simultaneously juggling mundane tasks including laundry and bath time.
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The ear works are accompanied by another piece musing on the city's symbols, "Le Petit Nîmes" (2016), with a canvas in which a palm tree seems to sprout a crocodile, which is flanked by a taxidermy crocodile mounted directly on the wall.
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Among the details that have been repeated ad nauseam: The iceberg is nearly the size of Delaware, which prompted some fun musing on Twitter about where exactly Delaware is and how anyone is supposed to approximate the square footage of that US state.
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" New York was a hotbed of anti-Lincoln (and, conjointly, anti-black) sentiment, and so Whitman, musing on the crowd around Lincoln, speculates, "Many an assassin's knife and pistol lurk'd in hip or breast-pocket there, ready, soon as break and riot came.
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Sagan's story of first contact with extraterrestrial life doubles as a philosophical musing on the nature of scientific exploration and its intersection with both religion and government — the sort of heady science fiction preoccupations that rarely make their way to big-budget blockbusters.
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" And here he is at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, filming his documentary Encounters at the End of the World and musing on climate change: "Human life is part of an endless chain of catastrophes, the demise of the dinosaurs being just one of these events.
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The first is a delightfully campy and poignant musing on the fraught relationship between two iconic stars in their waning years; the second is a more traditional teen drama, albeit one that deals with the darker side of high school, like suicide, and sexual assault.
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But seven hours of footage, some of which has been made public, finds the FPÖ pair musing on the possibility of building a media landscape modelled on Hungary's, thinking about ways to circumvent party-donation rules, and lamenting the West's "decadence"—before decamping to a nightclub.
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"Bad Hurt," a family drama set on Staten Island in 1999 — its opening montage features a distant view of the World Trade Center over a Springsteen-inflected singer musing on how "talk is cheap" — is a sincere, in some respects conscientiously crafted, and almost relentlessly glum movie.
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" Athill, a longtime London book editor, concluded her elegant narrative by musing on possibilities for her deathbed quotation, admitting, "Foolish though it may be, I have to confess that I still hope the occasion on which I have to say it does not come very soon.
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Even though Wayne is musing on how much of a gangster he is or isn't, he's well aware of how he's seen, by virtue of his youth, as just another rapper in the list of child stars like then-newcomers Lil Romeo and Lil Bow Wow.
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The camera angles are no less clinical: when Bob collapses at the foot of an escalator, proving that Martin's augury is coming true, we gaze down on the crisis from on high, like Harry Lime musing on the antlike Viennese from the perch of a Ferris wheel.
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From the hopeful take on local government in Parks and Recreation, to the rosy view of modern policing in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, to the existentially conflicted but fundamentally positive musing on a life lived in The Good Place, Schur's works are defined by their relentless optimism.
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Presented in collaboration with the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and the Living Theatre, the 40-minute reading offered a musing on the social and political systems that led to the uprising and suppression of coal miners in the impoverished province of Asturias, Spain, in October, 1935.
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Set to eerie, mysterious synth-funk, "Circle Of Love" finds Cat wondering "How would you feel / If you found out new boo wasn't so new to the crew?" and musing on the feelings of jealousy that can be provoked upon discovering a new lover's sexual history.
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Suffice it to say, many of the bystanders are left literally speechless by the beautiful, soft-spoken actress musing on wildly inappropriate topics and hurling expletives at them in bits about bestiality, bowel movements, how Google ruins relationships (hint: porn!) and Andrew Dice Clay-style riffs on fairy tales.
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Which isn't to say it's a waste: Director Jim Jarmusch opts to mostly let the band — primarily iconic frontman Iggy Pop — tell their own story through interviews, crafting a mostly chronological account of the Stooges' early-'70s heyday and musing on its impact on the impending punk scene.
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But part of the point of both Age of Spin and Deep in the Heart of Texas is Chappelle musing on how he is, at 42 years old, officially part of an older generation that has no fucking idea what's going on with the kids, including his own.
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Musing on the differences between her sitters' choices and the photos she gets to keep — where someone might be blinking or bursting into laughter, seemingly disrupting a more formal pose — Dorfman expresses her own preference for the reject or "B-side" image in every instance, hence Morris's title.
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This atmosphere of caution was certainly a factor for artists Eames Armstrong and John Moletress when they found threads discussing their works and musing on their possible connections to the thoroughly debunked conspiracy on Voat, a site that now hosts some of the #Pizzagate conspiracists banned by Reddit and 4Chan.
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Mr. Simmons was featured in passages describing the impact meditation has had on his life, as well as musing on the soul, abundance and wealth; future editions of the book, available in stores starting in February, will not contain those segments, Marlena Bittner, a spokeswoman for the publisher, Flatiron Books, said.
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"In Common" feels both of this moment and outside of it, a slinky, understated but dance-y single that, like all her best songs, packs in more depth than you're supposed to hear on the radio, musing on the way relationships handle the personal imperfections of the people in them.
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Among the colour of "Bofou Safou", a tongue-in-cheek take on Malian men who prefer dancing to working, and the disorder of the album's title track, a musing on the country's political chaos, lie bluesy gems like "Ta promesse" and "Mokou Mokou", which lure the listener in with a satisfying lilt.
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"It's shorthand for 100 people, like a Margaret Howell white shirt," said Christine Muhlke, a food consultant and author, comparing the Plain English kitchens, which now start at $19593,000, to the English clothing designer who makes understated schoolboy pieces, and musing on how the company became a brand for those who eschew brands.
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He was referring, of course, to money, but he could have meant the sourness and sense of anticlimax enveloping the end of A-Rod, with his team paying him to go away and sportswriters musing on how his Hall of Fame career statistics were far too tainted for the Hall of Fame.
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Ethical questions aside, "Bewitched" is a marvel of tonal balancing: The Xander A-plot is slapstick and funny with a core of heartbreak, and the subplot of Angel musing on the perfect Valentine's Day gift for Buffy keeps the menace and subtle horror of the season's central plot running through the background.
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If you are the narrator of the French novelist Yannick Haenel's "Hold Fast Your Crown," a story of madness, art, alcohol and creativity, you repair to your bedroom with a six-pack to watch one of your favorite movies, "Apocalypse Now," while musing on its significance to you and perhaps to life itself.
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It's a genre so broad (depending on the sort of #head you are) that it can stretch from Skinnyman musing on social deprivation to Loyle Carner's grief over his father's death to gun-fingers-to-the-sky yelling along to Roots Manuva's "Witness (1 Hope)" or turning up to Section Boyz' latest surprise drop.
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The problem with all this self-deluding preservation of the past isn't just that it's regressive, or alienating for those of us who don't spend our time musing on Churchill's legacy or swelling with pride at our good fortune to accidentally be born British; it's that it pollutes and stagnates even the discourse that ought to oppose it.
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Indulgent, occasionally ridiculous and often gorgeous, the album crams together Auto-Tuned vocals, catchy guitar licks, programmed drums, flashes of R&B and neo-soul, acoustic tear-jerkers, schlocky '623s power ballads, ornate instrumental interludes, post-Drake tropical house, multiple background choirs and computerized spoken word into a cogent, 262-minute musing on addiction, fame and technology.
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Which is why, when the Rick Owens show began to a medley of voices singing "Baubles, Bangles and Beads," a tune from the 1953 musical "Kismet" that has been covered by everyone from Peggy Lee to Frank Sinatra and that features a woman musing on whether her sparkly accessories will help her catch a man, it was kind of a relief.
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Other times, they serve as little winks from Marvel to its biggest fans, or call back to the company's history (see: Howard the Duck dropping by at the end of the first Guardians of the Galaxy, or Captain America musing on the virtue of patience at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming with the implication that post-credits scenes won't always feature big reveals).
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Musing on what is and isn't protected by the Second Amendment "Obviously the (Second) Amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand-carried -- it's to keep and 'bear,' so it doesn't apply to cannons -- but I suppose here are hand-held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes, that will have to be decided," he said during a Fox News Sunday interview in 2012. 8.
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Other times, they serve as little winks from Marvel to its biggest fans, or callback to the company's history (see: Howard the Duck dropping by at the end of the first Guardians of the Galaxy, or Captain America musing on the virtue of patience at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming as if to imply that post-credits scenes won't always feature big reveals).
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Other times, they serve as little winks from Marvel to its biggest fans, or call back to the company's history (see: Howard the Duck dropping by at the end of the first Guardians of the Galaxy, or Captain America musing on the virtue of patience at the end of Spider-Man: Homecoming as if to imply that post-credits scenes won't always feature big reveals).
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And while his Guy Fieri takedown and love letter to (the now defunct) Times Square Señor Frog's are the stuff of legends, his recent article about why he's not reviewing the expensive and exclusive pop-up restaurant Noma Mexico contains enough musing on the ethics and pitfalls of any critic's job — especially those who deal with expensive, exclusive cultural goods — that I haven't stopped thinking about it since I read it.
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From Sam musing on the way that the White Walkers' desire to wipe humankind from the map parallels the way death makes us forget (and causes us to be forgotten) to the constant refrains of "We're all going to die here!" from just about everybody, "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms" zeroes in on who these characters are, who they were, and where they're going, as the world seemingly draws to a close.
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Mr Eco, who worked from notebooks, index cards, obscure codices and hand-drawn maps, was seldom autobiographical, save for musing on the seductive symbols and myths of fascism with which he had grown up; and save for reflecting that his omnivorous curiosity, his love of lists and lunatic science ("Ptolemy, not Galileo") and his analysis of every conceivable cultural artefact, from Thomas Mann to Mickey Mouse, from Snoopy to Avicenna, from TV quiz shows to the "Poetics" of Aristotle, had been fed in boyhood by reading Jules Verne.
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