Osborne fixates on an apparition-like vision of a kathoey releasing a catfish into the river.
At a more symbolic level, sitting apparition-like on the social and educational landscape, the story of Washday also deserves to be considered as a kind of national treasure, a parable or learning story, on which we can draw for thinking about biculturalism as it plays out in Aotearoa New Zealand.
The trade-off has been a loss of bloodcurdling apparitions, like those in which "The Shining" specialized.
In the novels of Fontane, apparitions like the one he beheld in the church that day, essentially theatrical in nature, are instances of "facts" elevated into memorable art.
Which ones shape the editorial choice to push for a particular policy, rather than to dismiss it as too silly to belong in serious discussions?Whether we appreciate it or not, choices made in the thick of crisis are informed by data and horse-trading, yes, but are also made on the basis of apparitions like justice or dignity or propriety.
Pierre Clémenti was a sort of Zelig-like apparition in a notable array of movies, ranging from Bernardo Bertolucci's "Partner" to James Toback's "Exposed".
That was Isiah Thomas's plaintive question to reporters who kept badgering him about Stephon Marbury, an apparition much like Sasquatch or the Loch Ness Monster.
The squid-like apparition is very faint but spans some 2.5 full moons toward the constellation Cepheus in the Earth's night sky.
The serene features in the Holbein portrait have been replaced by a reptilian mask; a flaming apparition bursts, Athena-like, from Anne's skull.
As is evident from the title, the book marks a return to natural theology, but it also returns to other earlier themes, including the parallel between Cartesian matter theory and the three "vehicles" of the soul, and the reality of spiritual phenomena as revealed in accounts of witchcraft, apparitions, and the like.
