But a book like "Migration," over 500 pages in length, suggests instead an exquisite self preserved at mounting cost, an "open" style shuttered against the punishing weather of being a modern person.
Feeling a familiar financial panic, I mentally calculated the mounting cost of this crisis and wondered if feting Jenny and Sara Jane's relationship was worth the expense.
But there are increasing misgivings about the mounting cost to employers of standing by the guarantees.
Wary at the mounting cost of his beliefs, voters threw out Likud in 1992 and elected Labour.
LET it be agreed that something serious needs to be done to contain the mounting cost of cyber-crime.
Then there's the mounting cost of compliance.
The ratings agency cited the mounting cost of bank aid that could double the nation's debt burden by 2013.
Despite the mounting cost of hosting it, Sascha is happy the money will at least be used for something he can enjoy.
"Mounting cost pressures and increasingly competitive market conditions in the European short-haul market have contributed to the Monarch Group experiencing a sustained period of trading losses," KPMG partner Blair Nimmo said.
