He gets inside people, and he festers there, sparking longings too intense and elusive to satisfy, desires too abstract and ethereal to fulfil, a sense of escape, transcendence, revelation, and ecstasy so deep it can seem to trivialise ordinary life, and thus trivialise whoever has to live that life, which is to say anyone.
Exegesis is not an exact science, and while the ladies tried their best to lead us to the light, true revelation escaped us.
Now, 64 years later, an episode of the History Channel series "MysteryQuest" — with the outrageous title of "Hitler's Escape" — has distorted the revelation of the skull to scare up a similar fugitive ghost, to the furious exasperation of the Russian authorities.
It's a place of revelation and escape, a parched world offering rare solitude and unexpected beauty.
Renee Xia, the international director of Chinese Human Rights Defenders, said the family's escape, coupled with the revelations of Mr. Gao's torture, probably infuriated those charged with reining in his activities.
The escape might lead to the revelation of secrets that could embarrass both Section 6 and the Ministry.
The reportedly like-minded Walker seems, in comparison, to have escaped, almost miraculously, with the revelation that he, too, is unimpressed by fossils.
It doesn't quite all hang together but its highlights are lovely - its quarrelsome old luvvies' meetings with Peter O'Toole in his element with Leslie Phillips (a late-age revelation since he escaped decades of severe stereotyping), Richard Griffiths and O'Toole visiting forgiving abandoned wife Vanessa Redgrave.
In Revelation, Sirrus and Achenar escape their prisons, and Sirrus plans on swapping bodies with his sister Yeesha in order to learn the Art and kill his parents.
That has been followed in the current, fourth season by week after week of stunning revelations about who will escape the island.
