To this day Mr. Li's long disappearance remains shrouded in some mystery.
The most notable example is the long disappearance of Wael Ghonim, a Google executive and leader of the young Internet activists who started the revolt.
This breakage is at the heart of the book, and explains not only the narrator's obsessive involvement in her lost friend but also, perhaps, Butterfly's long disappearance.
Lee's long disappearance from public view was, like Syd's, down in part to drug-induced mental health problems, but the violence that simmered beneath his music also informed his life.
His long disappearance after that record makes more sense in the context of a condition that can be "debilitating as fuck… Meeting new people, strangers, things like that freak me out on bad days.
But part of that also is a result of the displeasure in many quarters with the way Mr. Gore conducted his losing campaign in 2000 -- from the states he skipped, to his decision to distance himself from President Bill Clinton -- and his long disappearance from public life after the election.
Some of her best works merge her two roles: Nox, a facsimile of Carson's own scrapbook, presented the reader with notes for a translation of a Catullus' elegy for his brother, poem 101, alongside photographs and notes detailing the history of her own brother, Michael, who died after a long disappearance.
Yet despite band tensions, management problems, lawsuits, record label limbo and a long disappearance, Tool picked up just where it left off on Sunday night at Hammerstein Ballroom, performing its slow, agonized, high-concept metal for a show that sold out its 3,600 tickets in a reported 60 seconds.
Even in the case of a two-year long disappearance, information trickles out.
Remarkable is the long disappearance time for leukaemic blast cells in bone marrow, i.e. 3-5 weeks in some cases.
Robert's efforts to uncover the facts behind her month-long disappearance simply underscore her guilt, by widening its context.
