With parallel independent clauses, you can
often drop the verb from the second, leaving the reader to insert it mentally,
whether singular or plural.
Her novels registered these events most secretly,
her letters not at all.
The flatter version of this might have been
and her letters registered these events not at all. Dropping
and and registered these events shortens the sentence
and picks up the cadence.
Premises were cramped, working capital scarce,
infrastructure fragile and the bureaucracy tiresome.
The trip is now a commodity; the tourist, a
consumer; the world, a supermarket of travel opportunities trying
mightily to satisfy every imaginable taste, temperament, and interest.
She supplied the facts and statistics, I the
philosophy and rhetoric, and, together, we have made arguments that
stood unshaken through the storms of long years; arguments that
no one has answered.
