The author of In Search of Lost Time crops up a lot in Paul Bailey's very sweet, very sad and very short new novel, but it's not only its brevity – a mere 151 pages – that sets it apart from Proust's modernist mammoth.
We must question our assumptions every time they crop up because these assumptions favor the people who already have power, who often have money and normally a whole host of other privileges.
From time to time rumours cropped up that he did not really die, that his death was a fake designed to free him from fame.
What is important is that intention might change across time since events crop up as the time between the assessment of intention and behaviour increases.
Some health problems develop slowly over time; other conditions crop up suddenly, almost without warning.
Remind yourself of this the next time these beliefs crop up and start causing trouble.
In financial history they crop up time after time.
When I ask friends to name a successful businesswoman, I find it really interesting that the same names crop up time and time again – Mary Portas, Hilary Devey, Tamara Mellon, or US figures like Marissa Mayer at Yahoo or Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook.
It's amazing how they crop up time and time again.
By the time he crops up again in Gravity's Rainbow, 20 years later, he has metamorphosed into something quite different.
