There are Korans, with pages that shimmer with gold leaf and elegant calligraphy, and a 13th-century Pentateuch from Jerusalem, written in script used by Samaritans who traced their origins to the ancient Northern Kingdom of Israel.
Friedwald is an elegant stylist whose passion for the music shimmers through the pages.
They evince a love for language analogous to a designer's love for pattern and texture; the best poems shimmer on the page, and also push against our assumptions about what kind of language is "poetic language".
And her grasp of natural description, not to mention her psychological acuity and fluid handling of time, results in a shimmering, multilayered reality on the page.
Of his first-ever fashion shoot with a professional model -- "Shimmer Like Your Sister Kate" (Page 168), starring the sought-after muse Ruby Aldridge in his hometown of Huntington Beach, Calif.
The design presents the monogram XPI which was used to signify Christ in many manuscripts as an intricately designed pattern of shimmering colour and spiraling forms blossoming over a whole page.
And she only recently began posting her shimmering pastel-infused creations on her Crack Crack Crush Tumblr page.
The magic of this image, along with its incredible detail, also has to do with the shimmer of the photographic plate, which, as with all daguerreotypes, is irreproducible on a printed page.
And Venturini Fendi, founder of Carmina Campus and daughter of the noble Italian fashion family whose glitzy products shimmer off the pages of glamorous magazines and pricy billboards, took on Rio's garbage pickers and Haiti's paper mache' artisans not as charities but as colleagues.
Rather, shapes and shimmers dominate.
