'European Culture: US Govt. Property. Trespassers wil thee Proprietered.'
the sign said,
loud above the head of the man
walking
looking not just for the girl but
whatever lay beyond
on the unturned page
like the next step:
hop[e]
David Bircumshaw
Leicester, England
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Jullich" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 5:05 AM
Subject: (feedback requested) "THE ABRIDGED PARADISO (ALIGHIERI NOTES)"
> THE ABRIDGED PARADISO (ALIGHIERI NOTES)
>
>
> ". . . there man's intellect delves so deeply that
> memory cannot altogether follow the experience."
>
> --- Gelernt, Jules, "Dante's Divine Comedy" (1964: Monarch Press,
> NYC), p. 107
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> CANTO I
>
>
> To be an exemplary Christian, then say a prayer to a pagan sun god
> (APOLLO), and revere earth, landscape: nature worship. A mountain
> (approx. 2,458m./ 8,060ft., north of the Gulf of Corinth) with two
> peaks, one named CYRRHA---
>
> and implore sun god to emulate a flute-player skinned alive, because
> you're a loser at a music entertainment contest (MARSYAS).
>
> (PENEIAN BOUGH) To crown oneself with a branch's leaves, --- not a hat
> made of leaves, but like a plastic headband used to keep a woman's
> hair out of her eyes, only from temples to the back of the head---
>
> The mountain peak (CYRRHA) might emit sounds like human voices
> (like stray cats in alleys, which can sound like babies crying)
>
> Three things, four things: circles, crosses, respectively (celestial
> equator, zodiac, colure) (sun's path?) (horizon?) {left one out!
> Lowers grade! Test anxiety}
>
> They all intersect one day, late March. In principio Creation
> reenacted annually, a fine time to see
>
> A girl spirit.
>
> She's transfixed watching wheels go round and round. Speechless to
> convey what it feels like to outdistance all humans, to surpass the
> two-legged,--- a little fable:
>
> (GLAUCUS) Fisherman observes his catch come back to life, restored by
> an herb. So eats herb, its taste, like cilantrol, jumps overboard ---
> a sea god!
>
> The girl: "You're dulled of your own doing. Blurry vision from an
> untruthful imagination.
>
> "At the speed of light, welcome home near the universe's epicenter."
> The man, surprised to be rising toe to head (not only penis) in a
> straight bee-line ascent upward above cloud cover, birds like ants---
>
> His astonishment ("Wha'?!"). Woman pities man. She begins lecturing
> on thermodynamics (pull of gravity, a rubber band snap-back effect?).
> She sighs (long deep intake of air; exhales audibly; expressive of
> weariness), her facial expression, a mother's, at her child's
> incoherent (febrile?) speech:
>
> "Flames are vertical. Only briefly angled at seasick diagonals,
> wind-ruffled. Here's why. Flames originate in outer space. They're
> lunar. --- Look at a flame's spectrum closely, concentrating, studying
> fire empirically: blue, green, --- moon-white! Don't act like a heavy
> lightning bolt and strike the ground. A whitened ribbon, often seen
> in postcards, from mountain top to stream below: a waterfall. No
> surprise there for you."
>
> Her face, the sky: two layers.
>
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