Where the pickup artists promised to make guys better sexual salesmen (sexual consummation was called "full close," as in closing a deal), Peterson, more ambitious, promises to help them get married and stay married.
The second is a pastoral scene, the landscape tamed and manicured, and the third, "Consummation of Empire," shows a great seaport in full prosperity, replete with upscale classical architecture, luxurious boats and a lively populace amid triumphal festivities.
Greenspan's work is the consummation of the old "Wide World" style.
As the only full-on sex act so far in "Silicon Valley," it represents the consummation of a demeaning partnership, the financial one between all-business Jack and idealistic Richard.
The worst cases of non-consummation end up in court because, to this day, no marriage remains complete without full sexual intercourse.
Which leads to unholy consummation.
Does the breakage presage consummation?
As Marshall observes, Fuller's success in wooing her father's attention away from her much prettier mother by gratifying his need for an "intellectual consort" inspired her later headlong rushes into one feverish cerebral consummation after another.
