Bullock and Tines are two of the strongest American actor-singers to emerge in recent years; their instinctive sympathy with Adams and Sellars's vision recalls prior work by Lorraine Hunt-Lieberson and Sanford Sylvan.
Eva Nalubanga, who has low vision, recalls the time when straining to see the smaller letters on the blackboard began to cause her pain: "I told the teachers I had a problem but they did nothing".
And if so, McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has no right to his vision: recalling Thatcher's motto that the problem with socialists is that they eventually run out of other people's money; they can't base a platform, either, on other people's ideas.
He has a brief vision recalling his father Archie pulling out of a wheat cooperative becase the price was too low.
"Burnside excels as a guide through his inner life and its complex, shifting terrain; whether sharing hard-won epiphany or hellish visions recalled from the depths of his illness," Adam O'Riordan said in the Sunday Telegraph.
Her dreamy couture visions recall John Singer Sargent's sartorial odes while the tunnel-vision shots could be stills from a Wong Kar Wei film.
Instead, it drags the reader along by the sheer energy of its prose, its surreal-to-the-point-of-implausible plot and several extravagant set pieces that, in the extremity of their vision, recall Ballard or Burroughs.
"My vision's real bad now — my swim-clouded, hallucinatory vision," Nyad recalled.
He had his own vision, he recalled.
"I go over, meet the woman, she tells me her wants and needs, and I tell her my vision," Mr. Allen recalled.
