Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada felt dissolving the Peter Parker and Mary Jane marriage and returning Spider-Man to his roots was necessary to preserve the longevity of the character for the next 20 or 30 years.
While driving to Scotland, he felt himself "dissolving into gold dust", and a car had to be sent to collect him, Blow recorded (although he in turn would be accused by Colin's half-sister, the novelist Emma Tennant, of fancifying his family's history).
Follow the waiter's advice, add a few slabs of oxtail on top, or a marrow bone, and feel yourself dissolve into the evening.
Through the night, she can feel him dissolving, and "melting in my hand"; it's like Raymond Briggs's The Snowman given a sweaty X-rating.
My introduction to the sensuous culinary delights of Montreal came last winter when a waitress at Toque instructed me to place a chunk of warm foie gras on my tongue and feel it dissolve around the sides.
"With eyes already glazing she looked once more at the Prince, hurled herself over the bulwarks into the sea, and felt her body dissolve in foam".
In her own development as a young artist, Opie felt her world dissolve a year after graduation, when she left San Francisco to pursue an M.F.A. at the California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia.
Crowley, the Enners Award winner as the nation's outstanding Division I player, soon felt his disappointment dissolve into pride when he considered how far the Seawolves had come.
This was no big deal: just a scribble, really, in the margin of Peter Mandelson's master-plan to rescue the Good Friday agreement and reconvene the Northern Ireland assembly, which as Northern Ireland secretary he felt compelled to dissolve last February when the IRA failed to begin decommissioning its weapons.
