It consists mainly of picaresque stories in alternating prose and verse woven round two imaginary characters.
In Socrates und Alcibiades, one man dances quietly with a clearly classical line, and then another weaves round, touching him from time to time.
He lives in the refrain, woven round his name, and he lives in the brilliant patchwork of "evidence" gathered from his life and times.
Instead, I reimagined some of the emotional scenes I had witnessed and wove round them a plot that would connect them.
The substance of his empire was military power and success in war; but Christian and Roman ideas were woven round the Saxon's throne by the writers of his own and the next generation.
The story he weaves round the passionate character of Chris Guthrie, a woman who endures terrible suffering as well as fulfilling love, is rough and unforgiving in its picture of 20th-century feudalism before the first world war.
It is striking that those who most ardently espouse this renovated liberalism bear similar characteristics: fluent, high-achieving men with an ability to duck and weave round the uncertainties of life to cut good deals – such as Cleggeron.
On the evidence of his works from the 1980s onwards, after his conversion to the Orthodox church and his collaboration with a feisty nun, Mother Thekla, on liturgical texts, God was long-paced and slow, underpinned by chants and Byzantine drones, woven round by antiphonal choirs and accompanied by gongs and bells.
In the tale he would eventually weave round her, she was an educated Victorian farmer's daughter who claimed to be a fallen woman in order to shake off the conventions of her time.It is hard to exaggerate the stir that "The French Lieutenant's Woman" created when it came out in 1969, at a time of great social, political and sexual upheavals.
A slip by Chris Smalling should have given Arsenal an equaliser, Tomas Rosicky unselfishly laying the ball back to Van Persie, who weaved round two defenders but blazed his shot wide.
