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pick a little picture. What is it about the escape that we admire?

Our favorite films, books and television shows are often considered exercises in escapism.

And then there are the literal escapes, from the count of Monte Cristo to the Shawshank Redemption.

We sympathize with the cornered and the captured. We root for them to find freedom, and

along the way, we find a kind of liberation in stories that are messy and often tragic, but always a journey towards independence.

In the real world, however, in life, the downtrodden don't always make it out,

and the ones that do don't always deserve it.

It's not difficult to imagine Martin McNally's life as a series of escapes, some successful, others

disastrous. When he was young it was an escape from a predetermined path, an escape from the

routine of schooling and the expectations of his family.

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