The marketer's task, therefore, is to manage this tension, this broken soul, this bifurcated core, this paradessence of a product or service.

Rouaud's narration is an exercise in hyperawareness; it is a vision of a world magnified in the dewdrops of an extreme sensibility.

The drain fouled.

And, that ſame Maieſty, vvhich (as the Baſe / And Pedeſtal) ſupports the vvaight and grace, / Greatnes and glory of a vvell-Rul'd State, / It not extinguiſht nor extenuate, / By being parcelliz'd to a plurality / Of petty Kinglings, of a mean Equality: […]