In the meantime, the jailer's daughter has conceived a passion for Palamon, whose princeliness makes her aspirations hopeless, painful and distressingly consequential.
The Venezuelan composer Alberto Grau founded the Schola Cantorum in 1967, and Mr. Golijov conceived his Passion with the choir's distinctive sound in mind.
It is not known quite why she chose this exile; Ms Grundy believes she went in pursuit of a young Italian, Algarotti, for whom she had conceived a passion, though he was homosexual.
A zealous, daring wire walker — the French word funambule is a more lyrical, as well as a somewhat more ridiculous-sounding term — he conceived a passion for the structures even before they were built.
To this extent, it is Monica, not her father, who is at the movie's heart; having conceived a passion for Jones's handsome deputy, Sergeant McLaren Jamie Elmann), she gets an English-speaking classmate — who happens to adore her — to interpret the bashful endearments that she and the sergeant wish to trade.
"I think that cars today," he wrote, "are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of the era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object".
The core of historical truth was this: in 1585 in Italy -- that proverbial sink of sensational depravity -- the Duke of Bracciano had conceived a passion for one Vittoria Accaramboni, who succumbed only after Bracciano had arranged the murders first of his own wife, then of Vittoria's husband.
In 1955 Roland Barthes wrote that cars were the precise modern equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: "I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as purely magical objects".
Within days he has conceived a passion for a dazed Foxy-T, proposed marriage, fallen in with his old druggy mates, got up the nose of Ruji's Beemer-owning gangster cousin, and seems to have broken the women's friendship while heading rapidly for disaster.
"I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object .The magic faded a little when the oil-price rises and safety regulations of the 1970s turned most cars into drab front-wheel-drive boxes that all looked much the same.
