The best way of doing this, I found, was to write, to describe the hallucination in clear, almost clinical detail, and, in so doing, become an observer, even an explorer, not a helpless victim, of the craziness inside me.
Two equations can be written to describe the average behaviour.
I developed certain forms of tablature and writing to describe what I was playing that had never been done before.
She began her memoir, she wrote, "to describe my own ghosts, and, in doing so, to exorcise them".
Alan Fern wrote to describe how he and his wife, Lois, have "tried in vain" so far to get their names on various airline accounts to match their driver's license IDs.
We were following the steps of a long-term Country Diary reader, Mark Hubbard (self-styled "exile from Somerset"), who now lives in Cambridgeshire, and who had written to describe a walk he had taken there long ago.
This gripping story of death and the hereafter is set against the tranquil village of Maplewood and vicinity, all lighted up at Christmastime. "A terrible beauty is born," Yeats wrote to describe courage in the face of death.
So when he read in this column on Aug. 27 that the international networks for A.T.M.'s did not permit charges for the use of United States cards overseas, he wrote to describe his experiences.
The final award was the Digital Creativity Prize for the Amis on Blair feature, a project combining video, photography, music and Amis' writing to describe Tony Blair's last days in power.
In his 1792 journal, Captain Vancouver wrote: To describe the beauties of this region will on some future occasion be a very grateful task to the pen of a skilled panegyrist.
"I had previously realized that although, conceptually, physics equations could be written to describe any biomedical phenomenon, such equations would be so complex that they could not feasibly be solved in closed form," he said in a 1990 talk.
