They are not particularly elegant ("Ophile, waiting for Paris's ship to come in"), and when they consist of a single word ("Panicked", "Raptured") look poor on a huge page.
They're rapidly becoming a band of the illiterate, the raptured, and the wildly uninformed.
I have a neighbor who's sure he'll be among the raptured, so I've asked him to leave his arsenal he hides under the mattress.
All the imagery of the rapt and the raptured and the rest that the "Left Behind" books have made a staple for fundamentalist Christians represents contemporary people and events, and was well understood in those terms by the original audience.
When the pilots happen to be among the "raptured," the book suggests, people left on the plane have an instant crisis on their hands.
You explore a primly deserted village in Shropshire, eavesdropping on the enduring conversations of the apparently raptured locals, whose memories roam the streets as swirls of light.
"Safe inside myself are all my thoughts of you/ Sweet raptured light, it ends here tonight".
Nor do all (or even most) of the missing qualify as Camping-style Christians; those raptured away include Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jews and the odd alcoholic.
A: A hundred and fifty thousand yuan?
