Tim,

As you'll see by my last message, I'm getting sold for various
reasons on this duality possibility myself--as an *intentional*
use of ambiguity on EP's part.

==Dan

At 02:53 PM 8/23/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Burt,
>It's clear that the green casque is readily associated with other elements
>from the green (i.e. natural) world in the Pisan Cantos, such as an insect's
>beautiful case, not made by man.  I was fairly well convinced that Dan's
>myrmidon theory was overshooting the target, but now, I'm not so sure.
>There seem to be _two_ green worlds, and two planes of meaning here ---
>again,  the Elizabethan masque's meta-commentary upon the dramatic action,
>and the magpie's duality, may shed some light on how the ambiguities of this
>passage operate.
> Tim Romano
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Burt Hatlen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 11:56 AM
>Subject: green casques
>
>
>> I haven't been following the "green casques" thread very closely, and
>> I've erased a good many messages, so someone may have made this point
>> already.  But the association of the green casques with army helmets
>> seems to me totally wrong. I have always associated the "Paquin"
>> passage with the final lines of Canto LXXX, five pages previous:
>>
>> as the young lizard extends his leopard spots
>>     along the grass-blade seeking the green midge half an ant-size
>> [then five lines about London]
>> and if her green elegance
>>     remains on this side of my rain ditch
>>     puss lizard will lunch on some other T-bone
>>
>> sunset grand couturier.
>>
>> We have here an association of "green" with "elegance," and Paquin was
>> in fact a couturier. A midge is a small fly, and its closed wings might
>> look like a "casque."  But I also think that Carroll Terrell is correct
>> in association the green casque with the cocoon from which the wasp
>> emerges, in Canto LXXXIII.
>>
>> Burt Hatlen
>>
>>
>
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