ravel out

What is Darl saying when he ponders how nice it would be "if you could just ravel out into time"?

All life and death and mystery ravel out Into one argument - the rounded one.

My very words, Chance phrases, ravel out the tale for me -- Sweetness and death - poison and love.

And must I ravel out My weav'd-up follies?

The tangled escapees ravel out of the restaurant like a spring-loaded joke snake erupting from a trick can labeled PEANUTS.

Above and behind the path, the cliff rose sixty or seventy feet; below and in front, it slanted down a hundred or more to ravel out in the ocean.