The medium itself may be exhausted, but not before it produces the memory of its own oblivion.
Here in 2014, however, it's claimed the writing really is on the wall for the world's most celebrated archaeological site, with neglect, mismanagement and underfunding speeding its second oblivion.
They are evident above all in the dream-like soundscapes of the opening of the finale, music that returns throughout the fourth movement; each time intensified, as each rotation of the symphonic wheel only brings the music closer to its ultimate oblivion.
"We are making history," said the slight, 37-year-old San Francisco native, who did not so much buy The Examiner last March as intercept it on its way to oblivion.
Perhaps it deserves to be smashed into oblivion; its long-suffering people, however, do not.
So why not spin it off to shareholders where it can sink into oblivion on its own when it runs out of cash and borrowing power?
Its omission or oblivion simply means that French history, and beyond it human history, has lost all its meaning for us.
The Columbia Journalism Review's editor-in-chief has been busy this week assuring readers of the half-century-old magazine that it is not slow-walking its way to oblivion.
The Left Bank, Rhys's debut collection, which Ford Madox Ford helped bring to publication, comprises a series of modernist fragments in which hard-up bohemians get mournfully smashed in Paris: "But there she was stony-broke and with a hand that was rapidly losing its cunning, seeking oblivion in a cheap Montparnasse café." Much of it resembles the most insubstantial parts of Maupassant.
But out of all the roadshow slides, Mason wants investors to focus on the one above because it answers his critics that Groupon is spending its way into oblivion.
