escape hatch

Red warning lights flash above the door, and inside there is an emergency escape hatch into a tunnel in case something goes wrong.

Red warning lights flash above the door, and inside there is an emergency escape hatch into a tunnel in case something went wrong.

Throughout the novel, Rhys references Kant, De Beauvoir, Sartre, Virginia Woolf and Epictetus, among others, using knowledge as a balm and escape hatch.

But it instead feels like an easy escape hatch when what “On Swift Horses” promised was a richer psychological landscape about what roils inside hearts accustomed to hiding.

“Music for us was like an escape hatch,” said Montenegro.