Epigrams are interfaces across which appreciation and insight flow. Epigrams parametrize auras. Epigrams are macros, since they are executed at read time. Epigrams crystallize incongruities. Epigrams retrieve deep semantics from a data base that is all procedure.
Epigrams are more like vitamins that protein.
Epigrams have extremely low entropy. Purely applicative languages are poorly applicable. The proof of a system's value is its existence. You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it. It's difficult to extract sense from strings, but they're the only communication coin we can count on.