Reel's book is a busy one, dashing this way and that among a complicated aggregation of story lines, celebrity walk-ons, obscure but vivid eccentrics, cultural grotesqueries, big scientific ideas touched upon lightly and themes from the life of Du Chaillu himself.
Sections of the book where we concentrate our attention: 1, 2, 4, 6, 12-17, 24-26, 24-26, 29, with 25 and 26 only touched upon lightly and 17 presented from quite a different point of view.
Controversial subjects, such as Ali's infamous baiting of Frazier, are touched upon relatively lightly; victories take precedence over defeats; those opposed to or uncomfortable with Ali's stance against the Vietnam War or his embrace of the Nation of Islam do not speak.
Several factors make this so – some of which I previously touched upon (too lightly), and others that were later expanded upon by Sandeep Casi and Armando Kirwin in their excellent follow-up posts on TechCrunch.
Speaking with Graduate Fog, a Manchester United spokesperson described how, despite the job's title, the role is an entry-level intern position, adding: "Whilst the candidate would be involved in all of the duties listed, they would only touch upon them all lightly as the advert states the position is for a two-month period.
Subjects only lightly touched upon in the stream-of-consciousness tale of passion and pain are the death of Father Browne and her current relationship with Sandy Feddema.
Certainly, the topic of racism in Paris is only very lightly touched upon, in the form of an uptight and bigoted bakery owner, played by Karin Viard.
The parallel with today's great conmen - Maxwell, Archer - is lightly touched upon, although the implication that Balfour's headline-grabbing fall is evidence that the 1880s were the first media age wants watching.
Real Hollywood horrors like a washed-up Bela Lugosi cruising Beverly Hills funeral homes for a fix of paraldehyde with the no-budget director Ed Wood Jr. are lightly touched upon.
The personal journey doesn't really go anywhere; the issues of food addiction and body-image pressure are only lightly touched upon; and I'm not sure that a hug from Gok is really a long-term solution for these kids.
To most of these and to several related questions, the most contradictory answers have been given,4 which cannot here be more than lightly touched upon.
