"Hello is this iggy azalea my brother had delivered something from Papa John's to u and he gave me the number on Friday night i am ur number one fan call me back please!" was the first message to appear, swiftly followed by: "Is this u please answer u r my idol".
Its light appeared swaying swiftly forward and lit the archway.
Wherever it appeared, paper swiftly relegated more primitive writing surfaces like stone, wood blocks, clay tablets, wax and sheets of laminated bark or matted papyrus stalks to oblivion.
To ram the point home, a large M then appears, which swiftly becomes a letter of the word "Philomena".
Initially, the lights hover dramatically low over his head, an aesthetic decision he appears to swiftly rue: "If I wanna jump on this song," he protests to a technician, "I might hit my fucking head".
The generals' allegiance to Mr. Kim came as the government appeared to move swiftly to rally the key agencies of power behind the young leader.
Soon, students at Beijing University were given government permission to demonstrate; buses swiftly appeared, and extra transport was laid on when student numbers proved too large.
That group appeared set to swiftly approve a Brotherhood-crafted package of constitutional revisions in time to redefine the powers of the president before the election.
The exchange was rare in that it involved high-level, bilateral talks, but it was familiar in that it swiftly appeared to implode in recriminations.
This weekend, I saw that a friend of Michael's had quoted a line from "Ballad of a Trump Voter" on Facebook, in the flood of emotional tributes that swiftly appeared online: "Thank you, Lord, for bringing Michael into my life".
