He might be like the old king's ghost, whose apparition throws the young guy off his game.
Gaines, a former editor in chief of People magazine, has a keen eye for colour, and enjoys himself greatly with the Hohenzollerns - "a funny bunch" - regaling us with anecdotes, such as the one in which Frederick's grandfather died of shock one morning when he mistook his mad wife for the "White Lady" whose apparition was said to herald a death in the family.
In support of this hypothesis, Verner first emphasizes the presence of several clay seal impressions bearing Shepseskare's Horus name "Sekhemkaw" (meaning "He whose apparitions are powerful") in the oldest part of Neferere's mortuary temple, which was not built "until Neferefre's death".
He became, in other words, a kind of apparition, whose goal was to animate the dead and keep grief at bay.
He became, in other words, a kind of apparition, whose goal was to animate the dead and keep grief at bay. (Barrie charted the number of his mother's laughs. "One laugh with a tear in the middle I counted... as two," he noted).
He stood outside bright windows filled with music, faint conversation through the mullioned panes and crab-clenched chandeliers with pointed flames above the animate and inanimate faces of apparitions whose features matched their names, all gentlemen with some big-buttressed dames, a fiction in a fiction.
But sharing the bill is a rarer apparition: Ms. Henske, whose strong, sultry voice and jovial onstage monologues made her a star of the 60's folk revival.
In the laundry room of his apartment building, he encounters a young woman with "a derrière so near to perfect as to be angelic," and soon he has hired the owner of this apparition, a Filipina whose name is Anya and who lives upstairs, to type the manuscript of his opinions, which he dictates to her.
HENRY POOLE IS HERE Luke Wilson stars in this comedy as a suburban hermit whose neighbors find a supposedly holy apparition on his wall.
That would have been easier in the Leper Chapel, all sacred ground being conducive to apparitions, than in the Manor, whose long-brewed atmosphere was palpably benign — not a place, one felt, through which an acrid spirit might pass.
This novel's chapters alternate between the first-person perspective of Alice, who is established early on as being prone, when anxious, to hallucinate "strange wispy apparitions," and that of Lucy, whose obsession with her former roommate seems unhealthy.
