The Rules were made to serve writers. Writers were not made to serve The Rules.
Especially in English – thoroughly mongrelized hybrid that it is – effectiveness is more important than correctness.
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I believe they were actually made by the firsts grammarians, who happened to actually be the owners of the print shops. Where they did pretty much as they pleased. They had the (almost) undisputable last word.
Ask George Sand.
Else, I did read all of the texts you proposed.
Though they are mostly pleasing – and definitely not mainstream -, none of them (except the first one, perhaps – tiny bits here and there) have what I described as “lost”.
If you submitted those because to you they are musical, then it makes perfect sense that we disagree. Chances are, you and I are not talking about the same thing. 
Well, “musical” is itself a subjective term.
Mostly, that particular list of essays was what I had handy. I intended it more as a sampler of the many techniques modern writers have available than as an argument for or against any particular technique.
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I thought readers of this thread might enjoy this, on now-obscure forms of punctuation:
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Nice article.
At least I know now I am not crazy, – or the only one that type of crazy.
Thanks, @kewms.
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