No matter how well he or she hides its traces, the secret narrative of transformation, of rebirth, is given up by the costume.
His subject, in The Resurrection: the angel rolling away the stone from the sepulchre, is the central mystery of the resurrection narrative, a transformation the evangelists omit.
How do they drive the narrative, what transformation do they undergo, what is their motivation and what obstacles do they have to overcome?
Unfortunately, "Inside Rikers" is marred by the misguided inclusion of Wynn's own narrative of transformation from a naïve, privileged outsider to a humble-yet-knowing social worker, a narrative that is as clichéd as it is irritating.
"So often the narrative around transformation is that it yields a happy ending, it's like a fairy tale, and all is well in the end," Awad said.
This approach changed into a narrative of transformations and demonstrations of a nature "red in tooth and claw," as Tennyson put it; survival was the force of creation.
Leaders lionised during the "voice of God" era of Australian political journalism were leaders with the attributes to star in the various book-length narratives of transformation and triumph: policy aficionados, aggregators of power and mystique, reformers, fiscal poets and dreamers.
I suggest that academics can contribute to healing of and in place through empathically bearing witness to the stories people tell and by the circulating and amplifying alternative narratives of transformation.
Maybe this new, ephemeral constellation, free of the modernizing telos and faith in one's city and nation, will produce new political imaginaries, modes of association and narratives of transformation.
The personal redemption narrative, the physical transformation, the macho fight scenes - it's got Academy Award written all over it.
