Mantel's narratives are always surging forwards, but are always pulled backwards: there is the power of ghosts.
The incident has not stopped people from making the journey to the Grand Mosque, where visitor numbers always surge significantly ahead of the hajj.
He recalls the alleys of his youth "stained pink by the inferno always surging in the sky,/as though Christ and the Father were still fashioning/the Earth".
The biggest wage problem in the US economy in recent decades is not they're always surging ahead, it's that it's quite hard to make them rise.
The number of people on the make for the proverbial five-fingered discount always surges during holiday times as stores grow more crowded and thieves find it easier to blend in without detection.
Online retail always surges around the holidays, and with the frantic purchasing of gifts come the inevitable deluge of email receipts.
Baltimore Bloc, another local grassroots organization, say that they don't think the protests had anything to do with the recent violence, and that in their experience, violence always surges in the city as summer approaches.
That's what the sound of the E Street Band always says, surging past every bit of disillusionment, loss, bewilderment and bitterness in the verses.
