His right hand traces arabesques in the air as he reads, dipping and weaving with the rise and fall of the line.
Try to imagine morning coffee and the leisure to read serendipitously, dip in and out.
(On the flip side, we have seen a dramatic jump in the bearish reading at the American Association of Individual Investors, as noted last week, and another sentiment poll we follow saw its bullish percentage reading dip below the 50% water mark).
LYDIA DAVIS: John Cage isn't an influence (so far) but I've read and dipped into a lot of Zen books over the years…and I look across the road here at how still the cows stand, a lot of the time.
Tuesday morning looked set for another rally, but the Conference Board reported its July consumer confidence reading dipped to 50.4, below the 51 expected and June's upwardly revised 54.3 reading.
The ritual was set — read a story, dip a slice of Gouda into the coffee, savor the gooey cheese, talk.
I parked in Cap Juluca's public lot, spread my towel beneath a sea grape tree, ate, read, took a dip and gazed back at the resort's white Moorish-style villas and perfect palm trees.
That afternoon, sipping tea in the courtyard cafe and reading Reading Lolita in Tehran, Azar Nafisi's novel about a reading group dipping into forbidden western literature, I'm invited over to join a real reading group.
And I've read of Julius Caesar dipping his grainy bread in olive oil, even as I do myself -- meaning no disrespect to any Picts or Gauls listening in.
Several pieces of unassigned missing coverage evidence (3 to 17 per genome) appeared to be due to locally low read coverage that dipped to zero at locations in the genome.
