Tripping through assorted rhythms, sonnets, end-rhymed quatrains and the looping lines of its centrepiece, it is as formally vibrant as the luminous letters that adorn its cover.
"We are being lied to," the shining electronic message board read, in big luminous letters, in a YouTube video that gained lots of attention.
Relatedly, last year I attended an excellent event for the L.A. literary outreach group WriteGirl, attended by the likes of Sarah Silverman, Paul Dooley and many luminous young ladies of letters.
The cathode-ray screen of an output device reconstitutes, in accordance with these signals and by a fine scanning device synchronized with the reading device, a luminous image of the letter, which makes an impression, through an optical reducing device, on a photosensitive surface.
That was for "River: The Joni Letters" (Verve), his luminous reflection on the music of Joni Mitchell, with a cadre of singers that includes Ms. Mitchell herself.
He was a luminous writer himself, in his letters, with flashes of rueful clarity about his mental condition: "I have moments when I am twisted with enthusiasm or madness or prophecy, like a Greek oracle on his tripod".
Rainer Maria Rilke gave luminous expression to this idea in his Letters to a Young Poet, by saying that we need "courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter".
The joint retrospective analysis of records from Germany, Holand, Belgium, and Sweden, in the framework of the LUMINOUS study, has demonstrated that the average ETDRS letter improvement at 12 months with ranibizumab treatment in routine clinical practice was 0, 5.6, 2.5, and 1 with an average of 4.3, 5.5, 5.0, and 4.7 injections, respectively [ 40].
A reading device analyzes, by fine scanning, the outline of the matrix of the letter to be composed and converts the luminous information it obtains into electronic signals.
As astronomers in Canada will report in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters, the Dragonfish harbors about 400 hot, blue, luminous stars.
A few lines in a memoir, a snatch of recorded conversation, a letter fortuitously preserved, an event noted in a diary: all become luminous with significance — even though they are merely the bits that have floated to the surface.
