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Others include paving stones, Gascon folk tales, parataxis, punctuation, cognates, medieval architecture and sheepdogs.

Mr. Simon could be dense and even obscure, gilding his essays with discussions of Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Serbian poetry, and with terms such as “tonitruous,” “caducity” and “parataxis.”

But parataxis can be defended on aesthetics alone.

Alter believes in poetic parataxis, not pious parataxis.

He devotes pages and pages to the problems of Hebrew parataxis—its rule of connecting phrases with simple “and”s.