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"World Enough and Time" is the eleventh and penultimate episode of the tenth series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay, and was broadcast on 24 June 2017 on BBC One. The episode was the first part of a two-part story, concluding with "The Doctor Falls".
World Enough, and Time, a 1980 novel by James Kahn "#ifdefDEBUG + 'world/enough' + 'time'", a short story by Terry Pratchett in the 1982 anthology A Blink of the Screen; Worlds Enough and Time, 1992 novel by Joe Haldeman; World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell, a 1999 biography of the poet Andrew Marvell by Nicholas Murray
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a 2007 book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, who is a former options trader. The book focuses on the extreme impact of rare and unpredictable outlier events—and the human tendency to find simplistic explanations for these events, retrospectively. Taleb calls this the Black Swan theory.
The setting for the story and Europe in transition after the First World War creates the old-fashioned and modern age comparisons which are developed strongly in the characters of Rosalie's family. The graphic descriptions in female biology, symbolic and overt sexuality and death create a dark picture for life's twilight.
In The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger, one of the main characters, Henry, recites the line "To world enough, and time," at several crucial points in the story. "Le char ailé du Temps" (Time's winged chariot) is the French translation (by Bernard Sigaud, 2013) of a short story by Nina Allan (2009), whose original title is just ...
The U.S.’s national debt topped $35.1 trillion this summer, and the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is now expected to hit 116% by 2034, according to the Congressional Budget Office—that’s higher ...
The Black Swan is a 1932 British historical adventure novel by the Anglo-Italian writer Rafael Sabatini. Like the author's earlier Captain Blood , it focuses on piracy in the seventeenth century Caribbean .
Feud: Capote vs. the Swans tells the story of the writer, played by Tom Hollander, betraying some of the socialites in his circle by turning their personal scandals into fodder for his stories ...