Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the huge compilation, "Records of the Meiji Emperor" (Meiji tenno ki), Keene constructs a year-by-year biography of Meiji's life.
"Other People's Money," which originally appeared as a series of essays in Harper's, is a polemic, but it's also a huge compilation of facts and figures.
In this huge compilation edited by one of Kennedy's granddaughters, the financier, ambassador and patriarch comes off as a man of fierce will and outsize sentiment (both good and bad).
The fire, which has burned more or less constantly since Sept. 11, is fed by the huge compilation of buried office material and the added oxygen that becomes available when some of the ruins are removed.
I was still scrolling through hundreds of eBay listings and marveling at how the auction site's huge compilation of worthless junk had managed, yet again, to open up a new universe of delight?
"This huge compilation of data shows that legalization is working very well," said Tom Angell, chairman of drug policy reform group Marijuana Majority.
On that sleeve, we had the hieroglyphics around his wrist, a close up of Locke's scarred eyes, Hurley and Locke looking over the hatch, the Dharma symbol, the numbers, the plane crashing, the Anubis statue... it's a huge compilation sleeve.
In fact, he had always been as thin-skinned as he was buccaneering, and if, by his own measure, he was "quite a practical person" all his life, he was also, as this huge new compilation of personal papers shows, a man of outsize sentiment -- a poignant, misunderstood dragon, more complicated, perhaps, than any of his children except Bobby, that other improbable combination of rapacity and romance.
In addition to many local and sectarian compilations, there were huge general collections, containing the lives of both legendary and historical figures, such as the immense Comprehensive Mirror of the Immortals (Zhenxiantongjian; early 12th century).
