A few examples of what I call juxtapostions:

"The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat"

"The long and the short of it" (or "We're the tall and the short of it.")

from American folk music, "Rained all day/ The night I left/ The weather it was dry/ The sun so hot/ I froze myself"

and, the granddaddy of them all (and possibly the granddaddy of all run-on sentences), courtesy of Charles Dickens: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way -- ..."

This leaves me with just one question: Is it better to be a grammar god, or a coffee god? You can live without coffee, but everyone needs a Gramma(r).