The leather mask was too big, and slipped off when the first 2400 volts hit him, revealing his agony as he died.
The combination of Grant's warm, affable stage presence with the agony revealed in his lyrics, mostly directed at a mysterious ex-boyfriend but also dealing with his own feelings of self-hatred, is very moving.
A series of journal entries by a writer who may be Herman Melville reveals what agonies he must go through with his book (perhaps "Moby Dick") because of the chance that some of the material in it may be libelous.
The New Yorker, May 26 , 1980P. 31 A series of journal entries by a writer who may be Herman Melville reveals what agonies he must go through with his book (perhaps "Moby Dick") because of the chance that some of the material in it may be libelous.
The first two episodes — concerning a legendary seducer, now elderly, who dons a mask to gavotte with the young belles at a dance hall, and the ladies of a small-town brothel who send the local men into a tizzy when they close up shop to attend the first Communion of the madam's niece — lift the veil of effervescent ribaldry to reveal the agonies of unsatisfied desire.
The first two episodes concerning a legendary seducer, now elderly, who dons a mask to gavotte with the young belles at a dance hall, and the ladies of a small-town brothel who send the local men into a tizzy when they close up shop to attend the first Communion of the madam's niece lift the veil of effervescent ribaldry to reveal the agonies of unsatisfied desire.
The first two episodes — concerning a legendary seducer, now elderly, who dons a mask to gavotte with the young belles at a dance hall, and the ladies of a small-town brothel who send the local men into a tizzy when they close up shop to attend the madam's niece's first Communion — lift the veil of effervescent ribaldry to reveal the agonies of unsatisfied desire.
The discussion with us which followed would have revealed transparent regret and agony, too.
Mandela's agony is revealed in a series of letters written from prison to Winnie and to friends, published in Mandela's final book, "Conversations with Myself".
The author, a sixth-generation Mormon who left the church, reveals the private agony of one of the missionaries, who doesn't buy what he's selling.
It's the grey Soul who speaks the concluding lines, revealing the internalised agony of one "whose heart's old fire in shadow of shame is furl'd …" This shadowed figure, hard to separate from the figure of the poet, internalises the strange, haunting and original image of the abashed sun.
