But Beethoven could make his music convey such "stories" of struggle and triumph even in the absence of text or an overt program, notably in his Symphony No. 3 (the "Eroica," or "Heroic").
The German-born wood engraver Fritz Eichenberg, among the most prolific illustrators of Russian and other classics, once told me that the absence of text demanded that the artist be extraordinarily skilled at "speaking" through graphic nuance.
And yet the unsentimental rendering of worm-eaten pages, and the absence of text on them, reminds us that books are just paper; or as Mr. Ruscha might say, it all ends up in the trash.
Turnitin reports generate a number (0 to 100); higher numbers indicate higher frequency of text matching between the abstract and Turnitin's database, and lower numbers indicate lower frequency or the absence of text matching.
"In the absence of text stating that the 'gift' was in exchange for a substantial payment, we considered that the claim 'in a symbolic gesture of friendship between the countries' in conjunction with the terms 'gift' and 'gifting' implied that the pandas were provided by China for free.
The near total absence of text throughout the exhibit suggests they didn't even try.
However, the game was derided by some for its confusing user interface system, often illogical puzzle solutions and what some reviewers thought was a lack of quality humor, plot development and atmosphere, attributing it to the absence of text and dialogue.
Presence or absence of text related to codes in each transcript was recorded in a matrix.
