“Habitually utopia, whether platonic or Marxian, has been conceived of as axis mundi or as axis istoriae”-149
“That is: while the physique and the politics of Rome provide perhaps the most graphic examples of collisive fields and interstitial debris, there are calmer versions of equivalent interest which are not hard to find.”-107
“if the particular performance might provide too literal an illustration of a repetitive exercise which distends the eye, then one may associate with it”-160