On a normal weekday morning, it is backed up and crawling from traffic light to traffic light.
The first the police knew of it was when they saw the convoys crawling at 15mph, lights flashing, on CCTV cameras on motorway bridges.
Foreboding images abound — crawling lizards, mysterious lights in the sky, a funereal assembly populated by grotesques — along with occasional ambient droning on the soundtrack and moments of mild humor and raw gore.
Set in a walled garden behind a majestic Art Deco mansion, there is no lovelier place for dining in Tbilisi — particularly at night, when the dozen or so tables, scattered among beds of crawling ivy, are lit by candles.
The cover of "Lost + Found" shows Miley Cyrus in a solitary-confinement cell, naked and crawling toward the light, the soles of her feet filthy, her arms raised in desperation.
The Xenakis moves in the opposite direction, starting as a burst of noisy, gritty, variegated textures with an almost orchestral heft, and crawling toward the light of comprehensibly shaped, ordered scoring without surrendering much in the way of timbral effects or surprising rhetorical turns.
Similarly, Drive Slow's lyrics initially offer a cheerful endorsement of kerb crawling ("turn your hazard lights on when you see them ho's").
The anniversary has been celebrated by conspiracy theorists crawling, blinking into the light to announce to stunned newspaper readers the sensational revelation that Stephen Ward "may" have been murdered by MI5.
"They taught me everything I needed for guerrilla warfare in Kashmir, AK47s, pistols, RPGs, sniper rifles, climbing and crawling techniques, reconnaissance and light machine guns," Mr. Khyam testified in the Crevice trial in September.
"We are daytime mammals, after all," Ms. Winn writes, "and evolution has programmed us to respond to failing light by crawling into a safe, snug place and going to sleep".
