But can we really handle the fleeting nature of sound, the escape of sound(scapes)?
Where the effort to create constitutional monarchy proved fleeting, the move to a ministerial system has endured.
The "linguistic turn" and the (fleeting) hegemony of "discourse" are, perhaps, rough parallels.
Fleeting references (i. 470 -7) to these issues are confined to illustrating missionary irritation at both.
There are fleeting moments where fragments become phonemes and a vowel sound leans towards the possibility of speech.
It is a test of individual wills and strength of principle, from which the surviving combatants learn to appreciate the fleeting joy of human existence.
But we do have some fleeting glimpses in the records.
It was a disappointment, a fleeting exhibition of basic puppet skills in a place meant to be a centre for preserving string puppetry.
