The second part contains descriptions of various devices for representing, if not actually manipulating, large numbers among them a device resembling the abacus, which some scholars believe originated in China.
It was the hyper-sad, ironically-over-dramatic music which accompanied the shots of Voldetool climbing Exile Dune that put me in mind of Cecil B. DeMille's over-the-top narration quoted above, which I'm sure would be embraced by the Dragonlicker as perfectly representing, if not indeed underplaying, his ordeal.
At the last UK climate march people of colour like myself were poorly represented, if not invisible.
Asked whether this represented, if not a divorce, a legal separation, a Lambeth source said: "It's more like sleeping in separate bedrooms".
That very Schwartzian moment demonstrates what's good about "Rockville, CA," which represents, if not a step forward for online serials, at least a diverting step sideways.
The play is cleverly staged and decently acted, with most of the novel's significant characters represented if not fully realized.
The new places around the Capitol also represent, if not an emergent dining scene, at least a steadily improving one in a city long derided for substandard eating.
In which case, Tony Hayward's admission yesterday that BP "did not have the tools you would want in your toolkit" in dealing with the biggest oil spill in American history represents if not a first step then at least an encouraging stumble.
Professional athletes once looked like somebody we knew, that friendly young fellow down the block who could run fast and dunk the ball or throw it a mile — not us exactly but close enough, and there in the games to represent if not always our town or our college then our species.
The story of one character, Nagi, a student who has been in trouble with the police for activism back in Cairo, is told in the first person, and he seems to represent, if not Aswany's actual views, then a kind of idealized self.
After everything that has happened, this display – like the 2-0 defeat of Aston Villa – could represent if not progress then at least a bottoming-out, or clinging onto the last few rungs of a ladder that the team had been sliding down all season.
