The text on the pillar, just a few millimetres high and probably carved using the tip of a small knife, translates from the Latin as "John Lydgate made this on the day of St Simon and St Jude".
Half a novel and a play by James Joyce have gone AWOL; TE Lawrence left the original text of Seven Pillars of Wisdom at Reading railway station and had to write it again from scratch – the original MS was never discovered; and Sylvia Plath wrote a second novel, called Double Exposure, which has never been seen.
The text for "Zohar" — a pillar of Jewish mysticism, the composer suggests — is a commentary upon the Five Books of Moses, here presented as six movements reflecting on the nature of man, Judaism and life.
He had just finished arranging to have eight copies of the revised and rhetorically inflated 330,000-word text of The Seven Pillars of Wisdom run off by the press of the Oxford Times and was emotionally drained by the drafting of his memoir.
He could not abolish slavery altogether, as it was a pillar of that text.
A potpourri of legal discussions, legends, stories, and sundry commentaries on biblical texts, it was the central pillar of Jewish education right up to the modern era.
Fīrūz showed keen interest in Indian culture, commissioning Persian translations (Persian being the court language) of some important Sanskrit texts and placing an Ashokan pillar in a prominent position on the roof of his palace.
It was in the South that a complete theoretical system of melas was introduced, in the Chaturdandiprakashika ("The Illuminator of the Four Pillars of Music"), a text written in the middle of the 17th century.
The ornamental imagery of the ketubah is often architectural, with pillars and columns and arches framing the text, as if a structure were being constructed, encompassing and embracing the couple mentioned in the Aramaic text.
"Didn't you say that texting is the lowest form of communication on the pillar of chat?" To which Marnie responds: "No, the lowest -- that would be Facebook, followed by Gchat, then texting, then email, then phone.
The Indian epic, the Mahabharata; ancient religious texts, the Puranas; and the Edicts of Ashoka – stone pillar inscriptions of the emperor Ashoka dating from the third century BCE – all mention Tripura.
