In the Great Pavilion, the nurserymen and women have been employing their dark arts, too; coaxing agapanthus into bloom two months early, cosseting iris with wads of strategically placed cotton wool or touching up the farinaceous, fan-shaped fronds of a Bismarck palm with face powder.

[H]e rushed at us; we grasped hold of him; I took right round him; Tennant took hold of his arms; we had not a great deal of a scuffle with him; he used all of his strength apparently, and I put forth all of my strength to overcome him; we put these wristlets on him, and the strap around his waist; the wristlets were ordered off; […]

And after having sacrificed all we had “except honor,” in an unequal and (for its atrocities) unparalleled struggle for now three years, we are coolly and unmanlily deprived even of the assistance of our brethren—doomed to utter extermination for the eternal glory of the so-called Christian civilization of the nineteenth century, and for the honor of the nations whose Houses of Commons and legislative bodies will by-and-by overwhelm us with sympathetic expressions from the tribune.

The techniques provide rich contextual information that is not drawn merely from graphic symbols printed on a page, which most often are fragmented facts to be remembered mostly by memorization; nor is it lecturized verbal information that may go in one ear and out the other.