[…] forty trumpet banners of sarsenet; seven hundred and forty pensills; three hundred and fifty pensills of tarter; four standards of sarsenet with boars; […]

The comforters, relaxed in sarongs after the day's work, kicked off their sandals at the top of Syed Omar's steps and made their obeisances to the wives, to the elder children, and to the gloomy head of the house.

a table loaded with good cheer

Such “image-mongery” only leads to “a lack of clarity about the role of imaginability” and about “the extent to which it insures that a sentence makes sense.”