But in this game, we are drawn back down to the essential and human.
But then we are drawn back to the plate because there is something so much more grown up going on there.
If life seems easier and less complicated for everyone if we follow the paths of least resistance, we are drawn back to a violence and pain that go beyond the boundaries of homeotstatic pleasure.
But we are drawn back to the redemptive message that in trying to rescue his world, and to create someone with the freedom to defy his will, Wotan sacrificially accelerates his own destruction.
But then we are drawn back to a world so much bigger than our hour upon the stage that we know again how essentially small is each human story.
But then we were drawn back to a year ago, watching Mubarak address his nation, appealing in stentorian tones to his "sons and daughters" of Egypt.
Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, understands that we're drawn back to "Gatsby" because we keep seeing modern buccaneers of banking and hedge funds, swathed in carelessness and opulence.
While Biggie travels on to an early death somewhere beyond the narrative's main frame, we're drawn back with the narrator to the prosaic life of the town he thought he'd left behind for good.
Instead we're drawn back to the Ekdahls' summer house, where the family dress all in white, like extras from The Great Gatsby or The Garden of the Finzi-Contini, and go on boat trips.
It preferred, as the nation reluctantly embraced a new, long-deferred civil rights movement, to excavate only the dry dates and facts and events of that past; we were drawn back then, it seemed, more to regiments and battle flags, Minie balls and Gatling guns, sentimentality and nostalgia and mythology, than to anything that suggested the harsh realities of the real war.
Those who wish to leave the EU and take the UK on its own separate way should also recall that on each occasion over the past 200 years when we have thought we could stand aside, we were drawn back into Europe's conflicts.
