| He proposes that Boole's symbolic logic and Leibniz's work on language prefigured the development of computers, and complemented capitalism's imperative towards abstraction. |
| The opening of the Sonata's first movement, for example, blends serialism and passacaglia in a way prefigured in the opera's final scene. |
| Snatches of conversation, remembered precepts, and prefigured cries of terror bombinate about his skull. |
| The author who delights in typology is bent upon showing that the cross is prefigured in the Old Testament. |
| Cowell's own work with non-traditional methods of playing the piano prefigured John Cage's compositions for prepared piano. |
| But what good is that if the struggles over parades are prefigured to continue endlessly, and to twist and inflame ordinary people endlessly. |
