In the last chapter, Fowles relates a trip to Wistman's Wood, an ancient scrap of oak forest on Dartmoor.
An ancient scrap of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife, according to a renowned expert in Christian history.
The government wants to reduce teaching of Latin and ancient Greek, scrap an intensive language scheme and change the history curriculum.
The car, you notice, has an entire back seat filled entirely with garbage: ancient computer parts, scrap metal, trash bags slashed open to reveal what looks like some sort of insulation.
Palm fronds and plastic tubes, tapa bark and newsprint, ancient motifs and scraps of magazine advertisements are treated with equal respect, and the synthesis yields rich and fascinating results.
Theirs is a world without humans – ancient posters and scraps of newsprint inform the animals of rising floodwaters, and a mass homo sapiens exodus to Mars – and without human roads, many of which are still drowned.
Some of their power - and much of their originality - arises from the feeling that they are uncovering ancient tales, rendering scraps of a buried oral tradition in literary form.
Glued, or "laminated," linen, Aldrete knew, was a common ancient-Greek material: scraps of it have been found at Greek archaeological sites, and the Greeks constructed their theatrical masks out of it.
Germany introduced laws to make it easier to establish joint-stock companies, scrapping ancient regulations, because so many German companies were taking advantage of the single European market and incorporating in Britain.
Open doors gave on to two ground-floor living rooms, each crammed with damp cardboard boxes and postwar babies' prams piled high with scraps of ancient carpet underfelt and equally ancient newsprint.
