Twenty minutes ago I picked up a text message that read: August Wilson has died.
IN THE Blue Boar, a pub so local that the landlord is surprised to hear its sign is missing, Roy Thomas picks up a text from his grandson.
Pick up an early medieval monastic text, however, and you will find extensive discussion of all the symptoms listed above, as well as a diagnosis.
Each of us is finding new ways to pick up a legal text, learn what we can about it, and connect it to other legal texts and, particularly in LII's case, real-world objects.
WHEN we pick up a mythological text like "The Iliad" or "Beowulf," we like to imagine that the societies they describe existed.
Thus Handke's text picks up a phrase from a television series ("Perhaps there are new, unsuspected kinds of despair that are unknown to us"), the title of a popular song ("World‐weary Polka"), tags of silly conventional speech ("She took her secret with her to the grave").
While I'm usually content to pick up a play's text when I can't see a production on stage, reading plays for pleasure can be a frustratingly incomplete experience.
The challenge is to create a title that would not only appeal to those in the know but also induce a regular human being (read: non-geek) browsing the stacks in Barnes & Noble to pick up a copy, sample text and carry it to the checkout aisle.
All they have to do is pick up a cellphone and send a text".
Concerned as it is with the limits of consciousness -- with characters who sleep too much or too easily, conflate dreams and reality or become haunted by the past -- the text picks up an ethereal, spare quality that should not be mistaken for simplicity.
