In "Mythos," time keeps folding back on itself.
They open by folding back accordion-style against the door frame.
But instead of folding back down on him, still in the seat, it stood there upended, and Mr. Schultz walked away.
"Let's give it a whirl," said Philip Green, taking off his jacket, folding back gleaming white cuffs to reveal a watch with which you could circumnavigate the world.
Then it rises again diagonally to support the theater seating and up the rear wall before folding back over to become a platform for the fourth-floor galleries.
Allow the cake to cool a bit before folding back the edges of the greaseproof paper and turning the cake upside down on to a plate.
That meant a sleek coat, with pants or a skirt folding back in a flap at the midriff to reveal knits with snowflake or more abstract patterns.
In the first two episodes, which cover the Asian disciplines of muay thai and eskrima, that folding back involves donning workout clothes and shuttling around Thailand and the Philippines to absorb the lessons, and beatings, of various Yoda-like masters.
Also special were the cellos and the clarinet solo in the slow movement, growing from and folding back into a gentle pianissimo that carried the ear with full attention to the threshold of silence.
A cone of pollution climbs above the never-ceasing procession of cars and Eddie Stobart lorries, folding back on itself to become a prophylactic membrane: the true Millennium Dome.
But cinema has a habit of folding back on itself; this week sees the reissue of one of those imperishable 1960s films, Far From the Madding Crowd, an adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel, in which Stamp plays the coldly raffish Sergeant Troy opposite Julie Christie's Bathsheba.
