Antony is unflamboyant: he permits us to overhear him, to eavesdrop on his secrets, but he does so almost reluctantly.
It is a post-modern book in that it concerns itself with surfaces... Tartt writes of the painter Fabritius that, "It's there in the light rinsed atmosphere, the brush strokes he permits us to see, up close, for exactly what they are - hand worked bristles visible...where paint is paint and yet also feather and bone".
Aronofsky is clearly aware of that prejudice, and the one moment he permits us to leave the closed and controlled world of the ballet company, he faces it head on.
Grudgingly, he permits us to keep pets of our own, but every so often he sends us a humbling reminder, a darling little freak so cute that it's grotesque, a victim born with its short clock ticking, a thing that we're powerless to save.
The National Confederate Expert Panel for Professional Secrecy permitted us to use personalized data.
We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing upon our endeavors to secure and transmit the same unimpaired to succeeding generations, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
He might permit us to say that.
And I pray to God that he will permit us to turn the United States into a shadow of itself".
"Frank Sinatra was the headliner at Caesar's Palace, and we sent a message asking him if he would permit us to come to the lounge," Mr. King recalled.
