Toby took up macrame, hoping it would cure her of her daydreaming and fruitless desires, and increase her focus on the moment. (Atwood, 2010, p.229).

And Barnaby quoted Dorothy Sayer's account of Lazarus describing life after death as being the moment of glimpsing the 'beautiful and terrible' front of the tapestry while the living must content themselves with seeing only the tangle of knotted threads at its rear. (Gale, 2012, p.55).