The Roman world never produced theoreticians as great as those of ancient Greece: the musicographical works of the Latin authors are very heavily indebted to the Greek thinkers, whom they did not, however, always understand.

the gravedancer comes/ the man inside the truck/ dreams of forgotten tomorrows/ he no longer recalls/ how he got there/ the blood on his clothes/ his matted hair/ his bruised body/ tell no answers

Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would have forced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.

I will draw a sight draft on my grandfather, I said. A what? A sight draft. He has to pay or I go to jail.