In 1905, Derain and Henri Matisse shared an epiphany of light and colour at the Mediterranean harbour town of Collioure.
Lacan's contention that "the unconscious is structured like a language" was the epiphany — the light-bulb moment — she needed to begin to untangle the puzzles of symptoms, actions and statements that characterized the abused children she worked with, many of whom were considered too sick or damaged to be helped.
(He credits an epiphany up a light pole on a below-freezing night for making him realize that he wanted to be the first in his family to go to college).
While driving around Lenox -- a small town deep in the Berkshires (home of the renowned Tanglewood Music Center) -- the third epiphany came to light.
More broadly, there were "epiphanies" that could "indicate not merely a visible or audible epiphany (whether in the light of day or through a dream...) but also any clear expression of a god's favor such as weather conditions hampering an enemy, a miraculous escape, or a cure; it may also be used of the continuing disposition of a god or goddess to offer manifest assistance".
"There was no epiphany, no bright holy light, no real moment of wonder," says the narrator at the end of "LSD in Raleigh," one of 13 stories in Greg Bottoms's first book of fiction, "just the feeling that I was in need of an ending".
At one point in the afternoon, I suddenly had a light-bulb epiphany and popped my head out the window on one of their fly-bys (probably scaring the heck out of them).
While Iain Mackay is a handsomely dominant presence, we're shown little of the dark, curdling anger that drives his plotting, nor the light-filled epiphany that drives his sudden conversion to forgiveness.
That may sound trivial, silly, even pedantic, but I find that the simplicity of this epiphany makes it yield more light to me.
Disconcerting as this realisation was, a pinprick of light shined through my epiphany's darkest corner.
