It tells of Lu Si-yan, the 'spilled water' of the title, although she will never evaporate - she is a survivor.
But the mystery never evaporates.
7Levov was a childhood hero of Zuckerman's; in reading the notebooks, it becomes evident that Zuckerman harbored an unceasing infatuation with him: "The boy's beguilement has never wholly evaporated, for to this day I haven't forgotten [Seymour]," Zuckerman wrote.
Duneier, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and is the author of a study of working-class black men, "Slim's Table: Race, Respectability and Masculinity," spent years slowly gaining the trust of his subjects, although he acknowledges that their suspicion never completely evaporated.
(Arthur has lost touch with his 19-year-old daughter and is haunted by the death of his father while he was in Canada evading the draft.) A certain wariness between the two never wholly evaporates as they square off over the unbridgeable divide between the ideals of youth and the resignation of the middle years.
Mosque attendance has plummeted and contributions, never robust, have evaporated; law-enforcement investigators continue to fan out through the community.
This year, though, the moisture never seemed to evaporate.
Sweetened condensed milk and its unsweetened cousin, evaporated milk, have never been in favor with food snobs.
The excitement in the crowd evaporated instantly, and never fully returned in what became the worst home loss for the Giants since 1999.
For Cunningham's Virginia Woolf, they change elevation to despair: "it has been only a few hours, and yet what she felt in the kitchen with Vanessa – that potent satisfaction, that blessedness – has so utterly evaporated it might never have occurred".
