So what a delight to read Lewis Hyde's The Gift, and find it unfolding into gifts wrapped within gifts.
At the same time, it unfolds into a meditation on the varieties of historical experience and the effect that cultural and familial history can have on the shape of someone's life.
Though "Underworld" pivots around the experiences of one Nick Shay, a hero who shares his creator's Bronx childhood and Roman Catholic upbringing, it unfolds into a panoramic portrait of America, charting the intersecting lives of dozens of characters, famous and obscure — baseball fans and conspiracy fanatics, hustlers, con men, businessmen, scientists and artists.
It's vintage Pärt; at first it could be a gentle, lilting folk-song as old as time but it unfolds into a multi-layered, densely harmonised acclamation of alleluia, which both triumphs over the horrors of Birkenau and bestows a profound nobility on the victims of that terrible place.
The verses of the track, which sounds gentle and swooning with acoustic country instrumentation, present a pastiche of happy childhood memories about running upstairs and learning guitar, but the magic of Remembering is that it unfolds into a declaration of abiding love for her father in the chorus.
It unfolds into two panels that catch the sun and recharge my phone, GPS, camera, or MP3 player with a simple USB hookup.
Where does this tendency to submit to authority and social convention come from, and how does it unfold into xenophobia and prejudice?
Paper Love begins as a story of a granddaughter's desire to plunge deep into her family's history, but it unfolds into a saga about all the families who endured the Holocaust.
The matrix-recorded signal can then be played as a stereo program on a conventional audio system, or by using another matrix circuit to reverse the mixing process, it can be unfolded into its original, multiple channels for surround-sound listening.
There are a multitude of questions about America's opinions on the war as it unfolded, offering insight into a population who only twenty years prior endured "the Great War". Who did they think would win the war, and how did their opinions change over time?
