Poor perpetually-broke California, trapped by Proposition 13 and other handcuffs on its taxing power!
Fortunately for his youthful amour propre, his household was scarcely affected by the Depression: the family lived in a brownstone on East Ninety-first Street (where the externally operated elevator enabled Louis to keep trapped housemaids perpetually ascending and descending between floors), then moved to 1185 Park Avenue, before settling at 66 East Seventy-ninth Street.
"I attempted to imagine the emotional and physical manifestations of being trapped, powerless, in a perpetually unresolved cycle of postcolonial conflict," Thorpe tells The Creators Project.
Unlike Kevin and Perry, Keith Lemon or even Alan Partridge, the four bumbling dorks at the heart of The Inbetweeners were situated perpetually on the brink of a bigger, wider world, trapped as they were in that most purgatorial of environments: sixth-form college.
As global warming thaws perpetually frozen Arctic land called permafrost (pictured), the greenhouse gases trapped within will escape, ramping up climate change's economic toll by trillions of dollars, a new study finds.
It is a moment that is found in the image but lost to the present: "Eternally trapped in the present, we are doomed to perpetually walk 'in front' of the past".
Patients are found at the mercy of deranged doctors; a confused mother faces a "perpendicular daughter" she is utterly at odds with; a teenage girl allows her boyfriend to squeeze her into ever tighter corsets; and in the haunting "The House by the Railroad", a child trapped in a nightmarish fairytale searches for a parent held perpetually out of reach.
A pair of perpetually forlorn, bushy eyebrows stuck on the flesh-mask of a sad ghost trapped on a yacht.
But the sense of the characters being trapped in an isolated, hermetic environment adds to the novel's cumulative power, as Margot realises that she too is living perpetually in the moment and Eli finds his "star subject" status waning, as old age brings only more suffering and uncertainty.
