In one chapter, highlight the "secret reference kilogram" located in Germany and originally cast in England.
Anyone who reads A Boy's Own Story will be struck by the contrast between a plain, brisk, clear-eyed language in which any boy's story might be told, and the luxuriance of its similes, which open up beyond the mundane world a shimmer of secret reference and private value.
The proceedings have increasingly moved toward secret references and classified filings.
Mr. McNeil is a respected figure among a few generations of jazz musicians, and there's an intricate hipness about his performances: in his late 50s now, he's old enough to remember the jazz musician's consensus language of secret references.
Whereas "Body of Secrets" referenced Borges, "The Shadow Factory" alludes to Orwell.
Sheryl Lee, who played Laura Palmer, said: "Twin Peaks without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret," in reference to her character's mysterious extracurricular lifestyle, while Mädchen Amick, who played the put-upon cafe worker Shelly Johnson, said: "Twin Peaks without David Lynch is like a waitress without her uniform".
The mirror-making venture bogged down in legal disputes between Gutenberg and his partners, but surviving court records contain mysterious references to "another secret art" -- perhaps the hand-held mold that could mass-produce metal type.
Around him, a legend reads, "Ancient Chinese Secret," a reference to a long-running 1970s ad for Calgon water softener that winked at old "Chinese laundry" stereotypes.
There is no mention, for example, of top-level corruption, Vladimir Putin's alleged secret fortune – referenced in US embassy cables leaked by WikiLeaks – or the brutal behaviour of Russian security forces and their local proxies in the north Caucasus.
The judge denied the government permission to keep secret certain references to classified technology on grounds that it would harm Drake's right to mount a defense.
Like so many obsessives, they acknowledge one another with secret handshakes, making reference to obscure or nonexistent works: the radio show "His Honor the Mayor," the TV pilot "The Fountain of Youth," the work print of the unfinished nineteen-seventies film "The Other Side of the Wind," the lost ending of "The Magnificent Ambersons".
