The Cherry Coke Jell-O is less a dessert than a text, packed with enough signs to keep a moderately competent cultural critic fully employed for months.
They are close cousins to the ubiquitous agreements that you encounter on Web sites, and their appearance — the size and type of font used, the overall layout of the document, the tiny text packed in dense blocks — seems designed to prevent easy reading and comprehension.
The text comes packed with copious footnotes, many several pages long, in which the literary scholar Paul Reitter and the novelist Daniel Kehlmann join Franzen in offering their commentary.
True, the text is packed densely with definitions and diagrams — it is meant to teach college-level science, after all, and is from the publishers of the august journal Nature.
In "He was despised and rejected of men," the mezzo Hai-Ting Chinn's fierce intensity and dark, plaintive throb of a voice ideally underscored Handel's theater-honed knack for fashioning text settings packed with palpable emotional impact.
O'Connell's review concluded, "The text is packed with fascinating information and humorous touches.
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Texts are always packed, by the reader's prior knowledge and expectations, before they are unpacked.
Meanwhile, publishers using text-messaging programs to try to enliven their pages are packing information into the messages and using reader responses to calibrate their coverage.
He came back to the clubhouse after Friday night's game to find his phone packed with text messages.
But at more than 500 pages of dense text, most of them packed with equally arcane scientific information, it is all too easy to lose the essential plotline in a sea of detail.
