In this environment, he encounters Rapture's twisted inhabitants who have been driven mad and deformed by an addiction to recreational genetic modification.
You plan to serve a buffet, with some dishes brought by guests, which range from the simple yet appreciated (smoked salmon, Swedish meatballs, quiche lorraine) to the wacky (an Eton mess brought by someone whose meringues have never encountered the rapture of stiff peaks), so the wine must be versatile.
We read a book of letters and we "understand the impulse to write biographies, we feel the intoxication the biographer feels in working with primary sources, the rapture of firsthand encounters with another's lived experience.
There is something geeky, too, about Byrne's dense blocks of text, appearing in practically every panel; it is rare for a page to have as little text as page 35 (Figure 1), where Darwin's rapture at his first encounter with a tropical rain forest is aptly presented wordlessly.
Talking of jungle, I'm reminded of how sampling has created a unique and unprecedented form of pop rapture: the epiphany of suddenly, accidentally encountering the source track for a favourite tune.
Maria's orgasmic rapture after she curses Elisabet, in her one encounter with the queen, certainly feeds into the idea of the confusion of the lusts for love and power.
Spielberg flirts with thriller conventions, though this is ultimately a cosy ride, lightened by a spirit of evangelical zeal concerning Neary's obsession, while the encounter itself plays out like an intellectual version of the rapture, in which only true believers are taken by the sylph-like visitors.
Her first song was the single "Rapture", which she wrote in 30 minutes based on an encounter with an Australian nightclub patron.
When Gareth Edwards dived over in the corner in the opening minutes of the Barbarians' 1973 encounter with New Zealand, he sent the Cardiff Arms Park crowd into raptures.
It was the story of a pugilistic encounter, and her performance perhaps rather "enactment"—of it regularly aroused the audience to rapture.
