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Instead it helps bring home the horror movie’s big theme about the transcendence of art for oppressed people, including “music so true it can pierce the veil between life and death.”

The idea that the mind behind the anaesthetic veil is not entirely silent has long intrigued scientists.

Clarence Dillon was portrayed in the press as a model investment banker, but his public image veiled a darker reality.

Draft beer, peanuts and big-screen sports... the scene is reminiscent of pubs worldwide, but in Saudi Arabia's capital, customers in white robes or black veils sip alcohol-free pints with no expectation of a hangover.

Cassiopeia wriggled with excitement, for there was only one person this side of the veil who baked in this particular kind of way.