Lecture 1: The Language of Action

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major conspiracies when they arrested him in August 2004, after he made detailed observations to plan synchronized attacks in New York, Newark, London and Washington, D.C.

3) Novel Helen looked at her. Her face was weak rather than decided, saved from insipidity by the large enquiring eyes; denied beauty, now that she was sheltered indoors, by the lack of colour and definite outline. Moreover, a hesitation in speaking, or rather a tendency to use the wrong words, made her seem more than normally incompetent for her years. Mrs. Ambrose, who had been speaking much at random, now reflected that she certainly did not look forward to the intimacy of three or four weeks on board ship which was threatened. Women of her own age usually boring her, she supposed that girls would be worse. She glanced at Rachel again. Yes! how clear it was that she would be vacillating, emotional, and when you said something to her it would make no more lasting impression than the stroke of a stick upon water. --The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf

4) Play (A complex of levels and spaces; of desks and chairs; of files and papers; also of characters, who mostly remain around the periphery of action when not actually involved in it, listening or unobtrusively involved in their work.) GUILLAUME …Every now and then Willy hears faint sounds over his head. Footsteps. The scrape of a chair. KRETSCHMANN That’s you? GUILLAUME My office is directly above his. KRETSCHMANN His own weevil in the woodwork. Can you hear him? GUILLAUME Not a sound. KRETSCHMANN Ear to the floor? GUILLAUME Nothing. He works very quietly. And when I come downstairs… WILKE (with Guillaume) Herr Guillaume.


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