It's morbidly bloody to think that the adult Rimbaud would probably have
approved.
Names meaning money.
What did Mallarme say about him? Poetry's amputee?
I can see meat hanging from the neon.
David Bircumshaw
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From: John Tranter <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 3:34 PM
Subject: Rimbaud / Rambo
> From Andrew Johnston in Paris:
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> PARIS, June 16 (AFP) - Lovers of French literature are shedding tears of
> despair at the news that a cultural centre in the Yemeni city of Aden
> named after Arthur Rimbaud -- poet -- has been turned into a hotel named
> after John Rambo -- Hollywood war-hero.
> The three-story house, where the poet himself stayed in the 1880s,
> was inaugurated as the Maison de Rimbaud in 1994, but three years later
> lack of French government funding forced it to close down.
> On a recent visit to Aden, Rimbaud-enthusiast Jose-Marie Bel was
> shocked to find that a building that once spread the beauties of Gallic
> civilisation was now dedicated to the epitome of American machismo.
> ''There is a big sign outside saying Hotel Rambo,'' said Bel, who as
> former head of the association Friends of Rimbaud was responsible for the
> original renovation of the house.
> ''It is scandalous. It is inadmissible. It is a dishonour to France
> and it is a dishonour to poetry,'' he said.
> AFP
> 161336 GMT JUN 00
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> ... passed on by John Tranter, Sydney
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