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... novel . What gives the novel its force is the mythic fable operative in combination with state - of - the - art scientific information . What gives the film its bite is its state - of - the - art visual effects . So lovingly detailed ...
... novel . What gives the novel its force is the mythic fable operative in combination with state - of - the - art scientific information . What gives the film its bite is its state - of - the - art visual effects . So lovingly detailed ...
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... novel's primal outline , there is no comparably ominous suggestion in the film that the most vicious of Hammond's creations , the migratory velociraptors ( very like Milton's devils ) , have irrevocably escaped from their confines to ...
... novel's primal outline , there is no comparably ominous suggestion in the film that the most vicious of Hammond's creations , the migratory velociraptors ( very like Milton's devils ) , have irrevocably escaped from their confines to ...
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... novel ( first published in 1966 and revised in 1977 ) is simultaneously based on The Tempest and on ancient and modern theories anticipating chaos science , theories such as the Heraclitian conception of eternal flux ( most notably ...
... novel ( first published in 1966 and revised in 1977 ) is simultaneously based on The Tempest and on ancient and modern theories anticipating chaos science , theories such as the Heraclitian conception of eternal flux ( most notably ...
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chaos classics and modern culture | 1 |
chaos theory Miltons Eden and Jurassic | 26 |
selfsimilarities in Shakespeare | 75 |
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