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Marie-Noelle,
We must take in account the temperament of these trying times. Perhaps
Rimbaud shows us that there are always those "outsiders" whose vision may be
painful but also enlightening:
"Democratie"
"Le drapeau va au paysage immonde, et notre patois etouffe le tambour.
"Aux centres nous alimenterons la plus cynique prostitution. Nous
massacrerons les revoltes logiques.
"Aux pays poivres et detrempes! - au service des plus monstrueuses
exploittions industrielles ou militaires.
"Au revoir ici, n'importe ou. Conscrits du bon vouloir, nous aurons la
philosophie feroce; ignorants pour la science, roues pour le confort; la
crevaison pour le monde qui va. C'est la vraie marche. En avant, route!"
Would you call Rimbaud "original"?
Charles
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>From: Marie-Noelle Little <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: bloody violence... or yet another possibility
>Date: Sat, Mar 8, 2003, 11:53 AM
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> Instead of going to the trouble of finding "a list director of Pound
> Security" we could just pretend we are all at St. Elizabeths!
>
> And to change the subject, when does one come to the conclusion that
> someone is "insane", "crazy", or as we say in French, "original"?
> Especially if that person happens to be an artist or a great poet?
>
> I often talk about my "Pound list", as others must have talked about
> their favorite "salon" (or "saloon"?). Next week in Paris, my brother
> may ask me: “the Pound list? What’s that?” I will simply say:
>
> "C'est tout un poème!” (It’s a poem in itself!)
>
> Marie-Noëlle
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