Okay David
>The idea of the lines you excerpt is very much focused on their rhythm. As
>well as a psyche stripped bare. Now as for angels, in popular culture,
>that's interesting, partly of course because angels are a part of popular
>culture without a doubt, but I take it you're thinking of making angels fey,
>like extra-terrestrials in a Spielberg movie, cute and wise. I always think
>of them in a Rilkean sense, y'know, 'each and every angel is terrible'.
Rilke's are good too. yes.
Doug
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University of Alberta
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arounds and
diatribes.
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