Most gardens are palimpsests of previous gardens

she said portentously

the first thing I did with my money was part rebellion, part panegyric

The many landmarks were outlined at night by their lit windows, as if in klieg lights

Edinburgh is a palinode. The gods, offended by a speech, require the speaker to make another, its opposite.

The point of writing in the face of the problem was the point of samizdat, readers and writers meeting secretly all across the Soviet Union to share forbidden books