Friday, January 3, 2003
Fugue Comments
Rating: ★3.1
You see them vanish in their speeding cars,
The many people hastening through the world,
And wonder what they would have done before
This time of time speed distance, random streams
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Howard Nemerov
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7/23/2025 10:04:04 AM # 1.0.0
A fascinating title. A fugue is an intricate contrapuntal musical form that Nemerov has compared to the complex interweaving of traffic. The original meaning of the word, 'fugue', is 'flight' which applies equally to the missions of the drivers.