TIME'S SMOKINESS

And a picture of shifting into impatience, from imperial, now national, projection to wily individual fi in the face of entropy.

"But when he came to the Forum of Trajan, a creation which in my view has no like under the cope of heaven and which even the gods themselves must agree to admire, [Constantius II] stood transfixed with astonishment, surveying the giant fabric around him; its grandeur defies description and can never again be approached by mortal men."

Ammianus Marcellinus (XVI.10.15)