Factishes fit well the emergent and networked vision of the world, because they stress the historical quality with which every acting entity is endowed with.

she [the tigress] rageth upon the shore and the sands, for the losse of her fawnes

If I lived them at a most unoriginal level of elation—and I very much doubt that my edenic content was very different from that of most other brides ... If I lived them in an unremarkable delight, I also lived them consumed in unremarkable occupations.

And now the ladies, with their gay plumage, have flown away like foreign birds of passage, and the jolly old priests of Bacchus, in the parlour, make their libations of claret; […]