It will take shape, as all civilizations take shape,
by the living of it, by work and effort, by trial and error, by
enterprise and adventure and experience.
The common form would have been and by enterprise,
adventure, and experience. The extra and in the subseries,
pulled from the front of the last part of the full series, gets
rid of two commas and finishes with a melodic cascade.
He can gush and despise, revel and sneer, as
through a bifocal lens.
All through the summer there had been rumors and
waiting and hope against hope, as there is before wars break
out.
Marketing and consumer-products firms like to know
who buys what—and where and when and how.
