Wealthy and controlling, he is yet given to fugitive feelings of guilt and bouts of yearning for the meaning he has failed to find in his life.
As Lewis Carroll wrote of Alice: still she haunts me phantom-wise Alice moving under skies Never seen by waking eyes Alice beckons us to enter our own fugitive states of feeling and desire, our own elusive dreamworlds.
The very fact that the story remains within this microcosm, rather than breaking out into, say, an Alex Rider style adventure, or the fugitive-in-hiding feeling of Kevin Brooks's Being, is a part of what makes Celia Frost different.
One hot day in June 1934, John Dillinger, an Indiana nobody turned bank robber, jail breaker, sex symbol and internationally celebrated fugitive from justice, was feeling bored.
"It could have been done all these years," said Teresa Marrero, 31, who recalls sneaking across the bridge as a child, feeling like "a fugitive," to the Highbridge pool on the Manhattan end of the bridge.
He successfully evaded authorities for months, presumably finding time in the midst of being a fugitive to watch "In My Feelings" challenge videos, until he was finally tracked to a house in College Park, Georgia, and arrested.
Since then, in the early days of life as a fugitive he lived reasonably openly, clearly feeling he had nothing to fear.
The godlike ability to control betting lines can be a terrific high, and the fugitive nature of the life only makes that feeling more intense.
"Our feeling had been that Tim Daly, along with 'The Fugitive' title, was a better launch pad for the evening," said CBS Corp. President and Chief Executive Leslie Moonves.
Björn emerges as a kind of workaholic Bartleby, the inverse of Melville's famous naysayer, a fugitive being, perplexing and perplexed, unable to explain himself, incapable of feeling at ease in the world, and destined to be alone.
