The fight had proved to be "one of the hardest, cleanest and most brilliant encounters that ever took place".
The brilliant stories encountered are highly entertaining and eye-openingly troubling.
The brilliant neuropsychiatrist encounters everyone's favorite serial killer, Dexter (Michael C. Hall), a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department, when she becomes a consultant for the homicide division's case revolving around a serial killer called the Brain Surgeon.
His search, with its complexities, its host of vivid encounters and the tension of its unraveling mystery, would be a novel in itself and a brilliant one.
On Saturday, winning its 11th straight contest, Madrid beat Valencia, 3-2, in a tough, some times brilliant, sometimes contentious encounter at Valencia's fortress, the Mestalla.
But Morgan does invent a brilliant anti-Disney encounter on the secluded Highland acres, between a deeply depressed Queen and a magnificent stag that has wandered over from a neighbouring estate.
We learnt new ways of interpreting architecture from Tom Wilkinson's Bricks and Mortals, and encountered brilliant new approaches to the short story in May-Lan Tan's Things To Make and Break, which made it to the longlist as the Guardian readers' choice.
Other schools have gained similar practical insight by hiring as dean practitioners from public and private practice (Catholic U. has gone this way) rather than a fellow academics, where in the Ivy's it's not uncommon to encounter a brilliant scholar who wouldn't have a clue about the most ordinary transaction.
In an instant, the witnesses say, they encountered a brilliant light, a blast of hot air and a shock wave that knocked over everything.
And yet, we've all seen counterexamples to this theory of stable interests: there's the indifferent student who hates science, encounters a brilliant chemistry teacher in high school, and goes on to get her Ph.D. in biochemical engineering.
