By linking him to the water nymph through both Sappho and Homer, Apollonius underscores his
inconcinnity in the Argonautica--a mighty epic hero trapped in a love poem.
Perhaps Shakespeare experienced a tension between his artistic ideal as a high-minded professional playwright aware of a critical, intelligent readership and the more immediate pressure, despite an occasional dramaturgical
inconcinnity, to secure profits from live performance.
The literary quality of the essays turns them into little gems, whereas Schallenberger's interviews sometimes suffer from the repetitiveness,
inconcinnity, and imprecision that characterize mundane speech.
Consider the slight
inconcinnity between the book's cover (a detail of William Blake's David Delivered) and the Preface's promise: 'The purpose of this introductory study is restoration; the text is to appear, I hope, with some of the freshness it once had.
Jupiter's exclamation, naming the projected murder a "test," further betrays this
inconcinnity. Indeed, it would be a mistake to expend too much cleverness in papering over what is so obviously a hole in the story, a loose end, if one will, for unraveling the entire weave Jupiter has so laboriously been fabricating.