Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.

Drunks conjure an endless drama from their bottles.

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

The sacred is found boring by many who find the uncanny fascinating.

The sun cares nothing for illumination.