...crystallized patterns and set attitudes are not usually responsive to gentle persuasion. Change "If it is now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will...not now, yet it will come; the readiness is all." — Hamlet Change, especially when unexpected, is perhaps the least accommodating and understood of...

...dynamics: A simulation study, Ecol. Modell., 65, 221-254, 1993. CT Toxicants and Population Demographics There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow....be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all .... (Hamlet Act V, SC II) 15.1 DEMOGRAPHY: ADDING INDIVIDUAL HETEROGENEITY TO POPULATION MODELS Discussion...

...shift? Here's what Hamlet said, trying to calm himself, when he too was in a tight situation: There is providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all. On November 9, however, Nellis is not ready. In the passing of a few minutes he has become less like...

...go forward: Not a whit. We defy augury. There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. lf it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come,...yet it will come; the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves, knows aught, what is't to leave betimes. Let be. (V.ii.230-35) Before the rise...

...Shakespeare's; it echoes a similar observation by Hamlet, stressing the force of Providence: "There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,...not now, yet it will come — the readiness is all" (V.ii.219-23). Of course the most striking evidence of the play's Christian overtones is the luminous...