But the Circle's central slogan – "All that happens must be known" – springs less from political ideology than the kind of callow info-utopianism espoused by Julian Assange (who gets a sardonically ambivalent mention in the novel), or the dreams of social connectivity realised by Mark Zuckerberg (lightly referenced in the Circle's founder, Ty Gospodinov).
It blamed the reports on "certain satellite stations that are complicit in the shedding of Syrian blood", a lightly coded reference to the Qatar-owned al-Jazeera or the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya television networks.
In a lightly veiled reference to the poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae, the torch is passed from one comrade to another in an effort to keep alive the memory of the war dead.
Like him, he is a novelist and playwright, and there are lightly coded references to actual Storey works.
Historical novels run a constant risk of lurching into costume drama, especially when they employ 'real' people, and are as well-grounded as this one in historical sources: connoisseurs of the Irish revolution's profuse memoirs will hit upon countless lightly disguised references and incidents.
Paris 1919 wears its literary and historic references lightly.
But she translated these heavy references lightly, with more sweetness than arty significance, and it helped that her lines were long and lean.
Mr. Lacroix may be too old-school to treat the references lightly, but he was, in a deliriously demented way, on the right track.
It is noticeable as well that, while including the names of the newspapers that libelled Jefferies, the television drama lets its own medium off comparatively lightly, with only one reference to the screen coverage being "almost as bad" as the papers.
It drops lightly respect to this reference position during the recovery phase of the geomagnetic storm.
