He works his way up, finally, the grand staircase and then a smaller staircase until he reaches the attic.

They're all searching for their staircase.

This is the steriolithography of a staircase.

Here's a key passage where he basically describes the staircase.

I'm offering the metaphor of a staircase in the mind.

We climb the staircase and experience a state of altered consciousness.

And I think if Grace Kelly is the most glamorous person, maybe a spiral staircase with glass block may be the most glamorous interior shot, because a spiral staircase is incredibly glamorous.

I got that staircase for 20 dollars, including delivery to my lot.

But you don't need a religion to get you through the staircase.

One of the most common is climbing the secret staircase and losing ourselves.

Neil Selinger, to me, is the embodiment of mounting the staircase in his third act.

The world's many religions have found so many ways to help people climb the staircase.

So, I'm plugging along here and I'm just going to have to blow up the staircase.

JH So note how Bradley's petty, moralistic self just dies on the way up the staircase.

But sometimes it's as though a doorway appears from out of nowhere and it opens onto a staircase.

And most importantly, if the staircase is real, it explains the persistent undercurrent of dissatisfaction in modern life.

So here's the million dollar question for social scientists like me Is the staircase a feature of our evolutionary design?

Escape from Mecca

Achieving Escape Velocity

We can't escape.

I'm saying we are Homo duplex and this staircase takes us up from the profane level to the level of the sacred.

This man is angry because somebody threw onions all over the staircase, and basically you know, I guess onions are a theme here.

The Great Bank Escape

I tried to escape.

I'll help you escape.

He managed to escape.

And as you get older and more decrepit, you sort of inch along on this sort of depressing, long staircase, leading you into oblivion.

The staircase takes us from the experience of life as profane or ordinary upwards to the experience of life as sacred, or deeply interconnected.

And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight.

And we know that we cannot escape from Allah in the earth, nor can we escape by flight.

And he couldn't escape it.

There is no escape hatch.

No Escape from Empire s Graveyard

I am dying to escape.

I can't be certain if the staircase is an adaptation rather than a bug, but if it is an adaptation, then the implications are profound.

And that we know that we cannot escape Allah in the earth, nor can we escape Him by flight

And that we know that we cannot escape Allah in the earth, nor can we escape Him by flight

They can disappear and escape bullets.

It's really only a successful escape.

An escape hatch has been reached.

His attempt to escape was successful.

The dog is trying to escape.

Luckily, we found an escape route.

It's no use trying to escape.

The only solution is to escape.