There were just drawings, coded instructions, and obscure texts.

Arya did, and the queen scrutinized her face with increasing intensity, until it seemed as if she were trying to decipher an obscure text.

Vertical lines are used to back, or underscore text, or to reveal and obscure text.

"Helpless halts my tongue," she whispered, as if quoting from some obscure text.

But so rich is Schoenberg's musical invention that it obscures an already obscure text.

It was an unusual best seller: a close reading of an obscure Christian text almost 2,000 years old.

If that obscure text that no-one has shown any interest in for 5 years is removed, someone will complain.

"When some obscure text is published and we get an order from one university for 30 copies, that says something," she said.

It's good discipline, especially with the more obscure texts.

She failed to add that she has found - or perhaps added - the comedy, the pleasure and the poetry in an obscure text.