She says a lot of things, some of them so well (about editors, for instance, "who cannot leave a piece, or a line of a piece, intact -- eating through a text, leaf and branch, like tent caterpillars, leaving everywhere their mark") that you want to click your heels.
This is so screamingly obvious that Duncan Smith must be aware of it, and the stated points of his argument are irrelevant: it's just a fig leaf of text to cover his subtext, which is to try and rebuild the taboo around cohabiting couples, by making them the aberration rather than the alternative.
The single leaves had other uses rather than inserts; they could be attached to walls as aids to private meditation and prayer, as seen in Christus' 1450 60 panel Portrait of a Young Man, now in the National Gallery, which shows a small leaf with text to the Vera icon illustrated with the head of Christ.
Colin Roche, a spokesman for Friends of the Earth Europe, described the climate provisions in the text as "an ineffective fig leaf" for a destructive trade deal.
The codex introduced several advantages: a series of pages could be opened to any point in the text, both sides of the leaf could carry the message, and longer texts could be bound in a single volume.
But what has rattled civil society this time is the manner in which the vice-chancellor, who is expected to be the guardian of intellectual freedom, buckled so swiftly, dropping the text without even the fig leaf of "due process".
In another post, he described how the sign for the phonetic syllable "yo", meaning "his" or "her", might be the word symbol "yop", meaning "leaf", in other texts.
As they follow Hsuan Tsang's homeward path over the breathtaking Kunjerab Pass, Bernstein already knows that Buddhism doesn't hold the answer to his questions (though he continues to leaf through its texts "looking for the Truth that cannot be expressed in words").
That low-level drug dealer you have saved on your phone as the emoji that looks a bit like a weed leaf who keeps texting you at 3AM about "fat lemons" has just moved house and he's forgotten all his cool ninja shit and, fucking hell mate, he's gutted.
Back in London in the British Library I actually got to leaf through the original text, neatly written in three musty notebooks.
Text color resembles the color of leaf sheath (green, purple).
