(13) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883) The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) A Child's Garden of Verses (1886) The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).(12) Used on West’s Blame Game, the sample is un-missable: a looped piano figure under West and John Legend’s verses.(11) The track has been referenced a huge amount in the past few months on social media, whether through verse that apes the “Hey now, you’re an all star” structure of the chorus or by remixing the track itself in ridiculous ways.(10) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.(9) "I myself am not very well-versed in the world of slash fiction," he says, marvelling at the time one would have had to spend to edit his perfectly innocent eight-hour recording into three minutes of steamy grot.(8) What the mixed responses pointed to was that, right from the start, The Satanic Verses affair was less a theological dispute than an opportunity to exert political leverage.(7) So we’re eagerly awaiting Mike Bartlett’s darkly satirical verse drama.(6) And unfortunately, the terrorists and the mainstream share a lot of these bad ideas.” The British Indian author Salman Rushdie, who was placed under a fatwa in 1989 following the publication of his book The Satanic Verses, said there had been “a deadly mutation in the middle of Islam”.
(n.) The act of scanning distinguishing the metrical feet of a verse by emphasis, pauses, or otherwise.