Not even the decipherment of hieroglyphics at the beginning of the 19th century, and the discovery that most of what the Egyptians had written consisted of spells, royal propaganda, and tax returns, could quite serve to frustrate the impulse.
A structured case report for each ICP was written consisting of a narrative summary of all information obtained.
The initial samples written consist of a regular series of line defects written by translating the sample through the focus of the laser beam.
But in English, the so-called infinitive "to write" consists of two words, not one: the subordinator "to" and the plain form of the verb "write", which can also appear without "to" in constructions such as "She helped him pack" and "You must be brave".
"The strategy of seduction", Baudrillard writes, "consists of drawing the other within your area of weakness, which is also his or hers".
" 'Streamers'... came out in three periods of writing consisting of four or five hours at each sitting, but these sittings were spread out over seven years".
These markings are thought to constitute a logographic form of writing consisting of some 1,200 different characters representing numerals, names, and such material objects as cloth and cow.
The lunch, he wrote, "consisted of four courses, with one vintage of Pavillon Blanc -- Margaux's sauvignon blanc -- as an aperitif, another with the langoustines, and with the rest of the meal a young vintage of Pavillon Rouge and a bottle of 1985 Château Margaux.
"To put it briefly," he told Simone de Beauvoir some time later, "in philosophy, writing consisted of analysing my ideas; and a tube of corydrane meant 'these ideas will be analysed in the next two days.' " Or, as the Ramones used to put it, Gabba Gabba Hey.
In the town where Zamenhof grew up — Białystok, now in Poland but at that time part of the Russian Empire — the population, he wrote, "consisted of four diverse elements: Russians, Poles, Germans, and Jews; each spoke a different language and was hostile to the other elements".
