He looked to theosophy, as manifested in Kabbalah: "those religious streams within Judaism," he explained, "which strive to arrive at a religious consciousness beyond intellectual apprehension, and which may be attained by man's delving into himself by means of contemplation, and the inner illumination which results from this contemplation".
Polite and charming, he nonetheless gave off the sense that the last thing he wanted to do was delve deep into himself for public consumption.
In approaching Ray this time, Daniels has challenged himself to delve further into the character and his crimes.
He admits that he always felt like a bit of a fraud doing that, so forced himself to delve into personal experience for the new album.
We liked the release so much that we ask the man himself to delve through his digital crates and assemble a mix for us.
Last March, Newson's wife, Charlotte Stockdale, a well-known London fashion stylist, gave birth to their second child, and Newson found himself delving once again into the domain of slapdash products: disposable diapers that leaked, fold-up strollers that pinched his fingers, dismal shelves of gimcrack plastic at Toys R UsUs.
The Arsenal manager had said that he might have to delve for the tome to reacquaint himself with the meaning of crisis.
One thrill of writing the first two books of his trilogy, Cronin found, was the chance to delve into another, less palatable side of himself.
He knew that Outing's offer to undertake the rescue would "renew his reputation as a world wanderer and roving reporter par excellence," and that he "might even delve into the Armenian massacres and make himself an even more valuable commodity on the lecture circuit".
Yet he must be asking himself: "How much deeper can I delve into this score?
