In the thrilling title poem of the latter, which Imlah includes, Muir's speaker emerges from the Cretan labyrinth, with its "echoing passages" (the word itself turns the winding underground maze into a text), into the daylight world: "the still fields swift with flowers, the trees / All bright with blossom, the little green hills, the sea, / The sky and all in movement under it".
I text Gethard from underground, where I've been stalled for 10 minutes.
Nineteen locations across London were sampled including Fleming's laboratory and twelve stations on the Underground (GPS co-ordinates, Supplementary Text S1).
Succeeding kings of the 6th dynasty (c. 2325 c. 2150 bce) continued the practice of inscribing Pyramid Texts in the underground chambers.
Flash-mobbers find out about them by subscribing to the underground organisers' e-bulletins, with texts confirming the venue just hours before everything kicks off.
For most of that time, it has been a dicey business, with Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime banishing many texts to the underground, particularly those on Shiite Islam.
And though it is certainly possible for musicians to meet the rock thrust and challenge it, or to engage with it playfully, or to entertain a dialogue with particular aspects or samples of rock (as, indeed, Mr. Lang did here in his re-settings of two Lou Reed texts from Velvet Underground numbers), too many of Sunday's participants were overpowered by the encounter.
Maybe she has been influenced by her other underground interest: photographing people reading religious texts on the train.
Outside rush hour, the subway is eerily silent: thanks to a strong underground signal, everyone's staring at their smartphones, texting, playing games, or reading.
But then the 1922 text was banned and the novel forced underground.
