A brook that is frozen over still gives an audible reading of the stones in its bed.
Frost is letting us know that while his brother poets may feel compelled to commemorate more notable waterways ("Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song," "I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it"), he has chosen to extol a brook that is no body of water at all, save to those of durable memory or buoyant imagination.
Moreover, The Guardian spotted a rather direct attack on Brooks that was posted in the Irish offices of the News of the World: a picture of her head on Adolf Hitler's body, complete with drawn-on Hitler mustache.
There were also the mystery loans made by Ms. Brooks that were revealed.
And yet, any intruder who imagines it is the power of Rebekah Brooks that is being stated here today has entirely missed the point.
But perhaps lingering deeper will be two vivid comments from Ms. Brooks that are likely to have stuck in jurors' minds.
To get to the restaurant, I drove for miles down windy canyon roads, past lush green fields, herds of cows, and brooks that were literally babbling.
"She told me that she thought that my voice was a brook that might be Niagara Falls some day," Ms. Price recalled.
It was inevitable that when Mr. Brook wanted a Hamlet that was strong enough for the West End as well as for a groundbreaking visit to Moscow during the cold war, he should turn to Mr. Scofield, and that Mr. Scofield should respond with a portrayal of the prince that was even deeper and more wounded than the one he had given to acclaim seven years before.
It was the first time that Mr. Brooks directed from a screenplay that was not his own, and he didn't appear onscreen either -- although, as he notes in his movie-length audio commentary, he did provide the sound of a cat being hit with a dart.
