Curiously, drugs that reduce blood pressure are sometimes used as an effective treatment for migraines, presenting us with something of a paradox.
Soccer's power lies in its poetic narrative the indeterminacy of each second of the game presents us with something primal: that our lives are subject to the limitations of human perception.
It's to Henderson's credit that he avoids all those things and presents us with something that stays in the memory long after the book is put back on the shelf, a whole that is greater than its parts.
However material, however specific to a place, however self-contained or abstracted or open-endedly metaphorical, the encounter with art inevitably presents us with something we can grasp only with reference to the familiar, with what we already know for ourselves.
Bad or confused metaphor (Orwell has some choice examples of which my favourite is "The Fascist octopus has sung its swan song") presents us with something we can't visualise; good metaphor makes us more aware, in unexpected ways, of what we see or sense.
On Saturday afternoon at the MCG, round six of the AFL season presents us with something quintessentially "Carlton". Playing at home, against winless interstate opponents who are currently rooted to the bottom of the league ladder, the Blues have nevertheless been installed by the bookies as $6.25 underdogs.
This presents us with something of a mixed bag: ComRes, MORI, Opinium and YouGov suggest very little, if any, difference in determination to vote between both sets of party supporters just prior to polling day.
The situation presents us with something of a catch-22.
Diane Paulus's great achievement is to cut through Heyward's muddy folklore and to present us with us something more profound.
The abnormal segments in a curve, like sudden jumps, dives, peaks, or valleys, reflect the value change and therefore present us with a hint that something worthwhile is waiting to be investigated further.
