"I'm certainly trying to sell books -- my publishers pay me a lot of money, and I want to help them sell books -- but I'm also taking advantage of the subject matter of the book to tell people how I feel," Mr. Turow said after inscribing more than 80 volumes, with stacks more awaiting his autograph.
In particular, the chapter gives foreign investors the right to sue governments in private international tribunals when they believe government regulations contravene the TPP's terms (inscribed on more than 6,000 pages).
The practice of memorializing by recognizing victims' names has roots in Maya Lin's Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, a wall of black granite inscribed with the more than fifty-eight thousand names of the U.S. service members killed in Vietnam.
We have much from him; his letters filled with good advice and good questions, the many books he inscribed to us, but, more than stuff, we have our memories of being with him and feeling his interest in us and his love.
Inscribed on Sumerian clay tablets more than 4,000 years ago, the Code of Ur-Nammu may be the earliest known recorded set of laws in the world: dozens of rules written in cuneiform about commerce and taxes, family law and inheritance.
For most British visitors, the main focal point is the Menin Gate – an enormous arch inscribed with the names of more than 50,000 Commonwealth troops who died here, yet have no known grave.
Using rhyme and meter to record, remember and recall the human story predates literacy; no doubt some court lackey commented on the semantic and expressive worth of the love poem recited by the Sumerian king Shu-Sin and inscribed on a clay tablet more than 4,000 years ago.
These would surely have horrified an artist whose ceaseless exploration of new ways of extending his range gave birth to some of the most unusual and expressive compositions of the era, and who more than once inscribed on his drawings the motto "Nil mihi placet" (Nothing satisfies me).
More recent historical artefacts – such as the obelisk inscribed with the names of more than 1,000 fallen revolutionaries that was once built and erected in Tahrir Square, or the giant concrete blocks deployed by the army to isolate protesters that were rapidly transformed by graffiti artists into towering canvases of resistance – were nowhere to be seen.
But teardrops in real life don't dry up and the cultural codes they write are inscribed in something more permanent than ink.
