The Author As The Novel Self: Shirley Lim’s Sister Swing

While authorial omniscience is denied the biographer, I argue that Lim as novelist takes this advantage in Sister Swing as a tool through which to explore the development of self-identity through characterizations of three sisters that in combination form the tripartite self as proposed by Freud. Autobiographical memories of familial, social and cultural life experiences are the source from which Lim draws and fleshes out, in her novel, portrayals of family members seeking freedom through different ways and means. As a self-analyst probing deep within the psyche, Lim employs linguistic stylizations to express contrastive and yet complementary points of view in a polyphonic unity of expression that echoes the id, ego and superego in Freud’s topographic model of personality. This psychoanalytic reading of the novel provides an opening through which to explore the deeper meanings within the novel and how the characters are interrelated beyond the level of sisterhood

Lim Goh Tong Memorial Hall Opens

The Lim Goh Tong Memorial Hall built in remembrance of Genting Higlands founder, the late Tan Sri Dr. Lim Goh Tong, was opened on friday

Snellius versneld

Practically all computations of the value of ? before 1600 were done using Archimedes' method. As is well-known, this method consists of approximation of the circle with diameter 1 by inscribed and circumscribed regular polygons. Denote the circumference of the inscribed and circumscribed regular N-gon by PN and QN respectively. Then PN < ?< QN and lim N !1 PN = lim N !1 QN = ? A little trigonometry shows us that QN = N tan ? N ; PN = N sin ? N (1) from which the duplication formulae Q2N = 2PNQN PN + QN ; P2N = p PNQ2N (2) follow readily.As is well-known, Archimedes, started with the values Q6 = 2p3 and P6 = 3 and calculated Q12; P12;Q24; : : : ; Q96; P96 consecutively using the duplication formulae (2). See [A]. We also know that Ludolph van Ceulen, around 1600, continued this procedure until he obtained 35 decimal places of ?. To get an idea of the accuracy of the approximation QN to ? we use the Taylor series expansion of tan x