THE ELUSIVE EMBRACE: Desire and The Riddle of Identity, by Daniel Mendelsohn.
Instead, Mr Hollis captures something far greater than a man's personal life, and far more elusive: the desire and struggle to write, even when you begin, as Thomas put it, "at 36 in the shade".
Like Judy Garland's Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," the restless central figures discover that their elusive hearts' desires have been in their own backyards all the time.
The decision of the New York Times to run personals is, of course, itself a pursuit of a similarly elusive and desired love object: the advertiser's dollar.
That elusive object of desire would remain both far and the focus of much attention.
Over almost three decades, the lovers approach and retreat again, their desire elusive even to themselves.
He saw Duchamp as a philosopher whose works are elusive allegories of desire.
But a viable alternative has proved to be elusive, given the desire for a way to measure students against a single yardstick.
Then, because of a series of untimely events — including the advent of sound — the full "Napoleon" disappeared, becoming one of cinema's most elusive objects of desire, alongside Erich Von Stroheim's nearly 10-hour version of "Greed".
For serious collectors, the most highly prized dispensers, long discontinued, are elusive objects of desire that can run to thousands of dollars apiece. Hundreds of different dispensers are extant.
