Indeed, these days, Boyd's more complex appraisal of the song suggests that Drake's resolutely metaphysical outlook gathered its own tragic momentum: 'Nick was obviously a more sensitive, literate character than Pete Townshend penning the words, "I hope I die before I get old".
The idea of pop-culture-literate characters is now so ubiquitous that when the prison inmates of this summer's "Logan Lucky" pause in the middle of a riot to discuss "Games of Thrones," we barely blink.
Casey, too, is refreshingly atypical: a resourceful, technically literate female character who's neither a geek nor a token lust object out of a Transformers movie.
Literate, whimsical, character-driven and subtle (until it's really not subtle), the film isn't so much a postmodern spin on the classical western, more a radical fusion of disparate elements which all enhance one another beautifully.
In particular, the state government attempted to forge close relations with the Kangchu by the appointment of a Malay official who was conversant in Teochew and literate in Chinese characters, Mohamed Salleh bin Perang, as the liaison officer between the Temenggong and the Kangchu.
"I mean literally literate".
The show's overriding literate tone flattens the characters into stiff speechmakers.
The correspondence between morpheme and graph resulted in about 40,000 characters; a literate Chinese person needs to know perhaps 4,000.
The regulations demanded that recruits should be under thirty-five years of age, well built, at least 5 feet in height, literate and of good character.
