Elsewhere, "Flashbulb Eyes" stages a twisted-ragga tussle between mystique and fame's lure.
And for all the mystique of private meetings between Middle Eastern sheiks and technocrats from Mexico and Venezuela, the 11 nations of OPEC produce only 40percentt of the world's oil and have been repeatedly blindsided by market forces.
As anyone who has witnessed Smiths fans making a pilgrimage to the distinctly unglamorous Salford Lads Club will tell you, there is a peculiar mystique about the connection between sound and place.
When the Sox threatened to move to Florida during contentious negotiations for a new stadium in the late '80s, their public relations director remarked, "Between the mystique of Wrigley Field and the marketing power of the Tribune Company, it's like sword-fighting with Zorro".
The difference between the erotic mystique of Playboy and that of its London equivalents is the difference between Marilyn Monroe and Diana Dors.
Friedan's tell tale heart explains the tug homeward as a disparity between reality and conformity, originating in a mystique that paints a painful choice between "love, home, and children" and "other goals and purposes in life".
Many of the most notorious art thefts in past decades bear him out and illuminate a strange disconnect between the enduring mystique of art theft and the reality of its perpetrators.
Even so, I said, between the Raider mystique, the five Super Bowls and "just win, baby," the Davis legend, if not Davis himself, must surely permeate the Raiders' facilities.
But by far the largest gap between those stirred by the Kennedy mystique and those unmoved is time.
What emerges from this retrospective is a picture of Nordic artists tugged between two magnetic poles: the shadowy mystique of the north and the bright sophistication of Paris, where many of them studied.
