We gave a queen whose age and whose education alike secure her being unversed in the old maxims and the corrupt practices of courts and cabinets.
Even if you're unversed in the intricacies of Thai politics, it is not hard to see Thaksin's shadow falling across the screenplay.
My parents, science postdocs who were often at the lab and were unversed in the delinquent world of the Sunset District, were upset about the lever, since we rented.
Suppose the fish is caught on a Friday night and there is no one available at the palace until Monday morning except a telephonist who, not unnaturally, is unversed in the laws of privilege?
One of the beguiling things about this setup is the way in which Beattie reminds us how unworldly we all feel in our early 20s, how we suspect there are codes in which we are unversed, keys to understanding the world around us that are unrelated to our Phi Beta Kappa keys.
Thomas Gray in a 1768 letter gives over eight pages of instructions to Foulis Press about how to print his poems, but adds: "please to observe, that I am entirely unversed in the doctrine of stops, whoever therefore shall deign to correct them, will do me a friendly office".
A corollary of these conjectures about their social origins is that Mo Di and many of his early followers -- including both the Mozi writers and their primary audience -- may have had little formal education and would have been relatively unversed in the classical Chinese written language.
But what makes it enigmatic for a Western audience, unversed in Indian epics, is that moral blame is never apportioned, words like sin and evil are never used and that the great god Krishna foresees and laments the coming holocaust but seems powerless to prevent it.
This thought will be touched on in Grayson Perry's BBC Reith lectures, broadcast from next Tuesday, which promise to be an eye-opener to those unversed in the curious economics and ethnography of the art world.
Both started as plays at the National Theatre, though The Madness of King George had its title helpfully changed on the journey from stage to screen, as it was feared that for an audience unversed in the history of the English monarchy, the title of the play - The Madness of George III - might imply it was the sequel to The Madness of George I and The Madness of George II.
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