The drift was becoming prodigiously deep; landmarks were getting snowed out; the road and the fields were all one:

an endblown flute

Its prima facie presence can be immediately grasped in the controlled critical judgments of a Polybius or a Plutarch or a Sophocles attempting to penetrate to the causes of the most dense phenomenon, human polypragmatism. It is present in equal measure in Demosthenes' oration, On the Crown, and in the Roman Pantheon, where the syntax of word and stone is stretched into ever larger and more complex architectonic units with such ease and skill and daring that the spectator can move effortlessly from part to whole and back again without either moral or aesthetic vertigo.

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