... pastoral ideal has been incorporated in a powerful metaphor of contradiction" (p.4). He therefore emphasizes the characteristics of the polarity between "machine" and "garden", already plain in the programmatic "rock-foundation", the epigraph (Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"): the peaceful spot, retired and fixed (stasis), is contrasted to the "torrent of migration and improvement" (flexibility and fluidity); the "little nooks of still ... ...

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... pastoral ideal has been incorporated in a powerful metaphor of contradiction" (p.4). He therefore emphasizes the characteristics of the polarity between "machine" and "garden", already plain in the programmatic "rock-foundation", the epigraph (Irving, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"): the peaceful spot, retired and fixed (stasis), is contrasted to the "torrent of migration and improvement" (flexibility and fluidity); the "little nooks of still ... ...

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