"Far from having put it too far behind him," he thinks of the city and his past, "he felt entangled, caught".
Feeling entangled with the past may sabotage emotional well-being of war victims and the peace-building in the region in the future.
One assumes that the artist wants us to feel both entangled and entertained, which can be seen as a metaphor for life, making "Playhouse" especially compelling.
At the heart of the work is a long, affecting duet for Miriam Wolf and Michael Helland in which their fierce entangled encounters feel like a thwarted, frantic search for emotional connection.
We feel sucked up, swallowed, entangled and baffled by this absence of form.
We feel, for instance, that we understand entangled actin solutions although ignoring or coarse-graining the filaments' detailed molecular structure.
Similarly, although most people feel that the president should be able to sack military commanders, this has become entangled in talks about the binominal system, on which there is no consensus.
In many cases, you might be entangled with toxic personality types, who make it harder for you to feel good about yourself.
It might also be true, though, that opportunities for women of the kind who found themselves entangled with Koestler have changed, and that women like Mamaine Paget no longer feel that succumbing to the sexual demands of famous or interesting men is the only means of entry afforded them into a life of art and ideas.
Should a New York newspaper be financially entangled with a group of people who clearly take pride in being "the A.T.M. of New York" and feel so politically powerful one of their spokesmen says, "if we are successful, Mayor de Blasio will be able to fund the things he wants to fund".? How nice.
