"These rapid environmental changes will likely consign epic, long range, polar ice expeditions to the pages of history," one expedition lamented.
Their epic battle ranges from the Griffin house, through the sewers, onto a subway train, over the girders of a high-rise construction site, and then up into a biplane, crashing into a giant Ferris wheel, which is dislodged from its platform and rolls through the streets.
Of course, considering its epic road-trip range, the diesel might be distinguishable by the speed with which occupants vacate its seats at highway travel plazas.
This is the simultaneous vision that allowed Walcott's epic "Omeros" to range so effortlessly across the Atlantic Ocean and to exist in the Old World and the New, though in this late work the tide pulls strongly eastward: "if the soul ever rests, / its next beach will be Dakar".
There can be little doubt that the same idea (blended with imagery from the imported Hindu epics) underlies the range of elaborate masks that were once used in the Javanese and now can be seen in the Balinese wayang dances.
