And I cannot help but marvel at Angela Carter's crammed sentences and how, for all their weight and violent grandeur, they sustain a kind of perpetual motion.
The thirteen-person Popgun team operates out of Elsewhere's basement, which may help them sustain a kind of D.I.Y. ethos they're comfortable underground.
The city of Pripyat there remains a post-apocalyptic desolation, but the rural wilds beyond sustain a kind of half-life for those who refused to leave their native homes.
It also sustains a kind of uncertainty, a notion of half-heartedness that surrounded the avoidance of risks by German forces in Afghanistan, or Obama's phone call to Merkel a couple of years back to say he couldn't understand her government's hesitation to close the last Iranian bank in Germany.
It also needs to sustain a kind of presence, and thus leverage, that it squandered in Iraq in 2011 (admittedly, the Iraqis had a hand in that too).
It seeks to create and sustain a kind of commonality, a universality, in the vast web of complexities that is life.
The Texans suffered their first defeat of the season last week, getting mauled by Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, but the Ravens sustained a more lasting kind of damage when they lost both Ray Lewis and the cornerback Lardarius Webb for the season following their win over Dallas.
His economic views are sound; they are laid down with ability, precision, clearness, and are sustained by a kind of pointed and common-sense eloquence somewhat rare in his class.
Whether or not you accept the idea that Japan's youth-oriented consumer culture is sustained by a kind of commercial Oedipal agon, the swarming shopping districts of Tokyo on weekends do resemble a world in which adults have been more or less dispensed with.
