How foolish of me to mistake you for one so stale, and you of the
tribe of dancers. And was it Eco's echo I mistook for a passing wind?
The wrong spoor, but he'd surely understand.
At 05:07 PM 2/11/2007, you wrote:
>Oh, I hope you don't confuse me with Mme de Stael's mother, I remember the
>wind because Umberto Eco's words echoed all along, it couldn't have been the
>fagioli Gertrude Stein cooked at dinner, she told me she peels them right to
>avoid embarassing (so to say) windy situations.
>
>On 2/11/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>Sorry about the wind, must have been the fagioli. Nice of you to
>>bring it up so delicately.
>>
>>At 04:56 PM 2/11/2007, you wrote:
>> >Bill Blake and Mark Weiss were brothers, do I remember right Kenneth?
>>Didn't
>> >they come over that day we went down to the beach and it was quite windy?
>> >
>> >On 2/11/07, Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>Mark Weiss wrote:
>> >> > Ezra Pound dropped by for lunch the other day. He said that he hoped
>>I
>> >> > would forgive him, though I don't know how seriously to take his
>> >> > apology, as he added, "if Jews can do that." He told me that he's
>>been
>> >> > hanging out with Celine, which can be a sort of hell, but that
>> >> > recently Leni Riefenstahl had been heating things up. "Even dead
>>she's
>> >> > a babe," he said.
>> >>
>> >>This is beginning to get scary, rather like William Blake's close
>> >>encounters of the 3rd kind:
>> >>
>> >>The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked
>> >>them how they dared so roundly to assert. that God spake to them;
>> >>and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be
>> >>misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition.
>> >>
>> >>KW
>> >>
>> >>--------------------
>> >>Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
>> >>
>> >>"For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I
>> >>was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I
>> >>rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came."
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