a little alliteration anyone?

From the word nerd files: Saw this walking along San Francisco's Embarcadero en route to the Ferry Building. The editor in me wanted to get out my red pencil and turn this quote into something a little less...hyperbolic. But the word-lover in me reveled in the alliteration and the onomato-poeticism (yuh-huh, I can make up words on my own blog) of the cable cars' "clangor" and the "symphony" they created in the "cosmopolis." It's impossible to read this quote out loud without getting all mellifluous right there on the city sidewalk. Extra points for the clangor of cars in the background.