Along the way, Ms. Bainbridge cleverly, poignantly and lovingly summons up the disappeared world of 18th-century London.
One effect of reading is to make the world around us disappear, a fact Markson uses to provoke the abyssal sense of a disappeared world.
Focusing on images of constant material change distracts him from anxieties, transports him back to the decaying, now disappeared world of his childhood, and connects him empathetically to an American culture from which he otherwise feels removed.
Putting the three monodramas side by side points up the repetitiveness of the writing and what 30 years ago may have seemed like social observation now comes across as a eulogy for a disappeared world.
A few hundred people, mostly Ukrainians, still live here, but it feels like the frontier of a disappeared world, frozen in time.
We mentioned it previously, but it now has finally opened to the public, allowing visitors to explore the disappearing world of the Arctic in a futuristic environment.
Because the goal of The Wende Museum is to present all the recovered details of this disappeared world, both good and bad, it came as a pleasant surprise that life there wasn't all a living hell.
After all, this is a reality twice disappeared: the world of 1986 and the world of Soviet dominion.
Susan Cooper allows us time to savour the soon-to-disappear world of the Native American with a sequence of unflinching episodes, beginning with Little Hawk's fight with a hungry wolf.
"Cold" is a striding tour through a disappearing world.
More importantly, the sheer materiality of the deed and the loot seems to belong to a disappearing world.
