Not nuts at all, Roger. Proust turned the personal A-Z of memory into quite
an achievement. He'd say that not only will it make you immortal, but it's
the only way to be alive in the first place.
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> "There, he took succour in conjuring up his own London A-Z in memory,
> recalling the White Heather teashop in Holland Street where the
> waitress once spread "the glow of youth", the kindness of Mrs Langley
> and her greengrocer husband in Church Walk - "positively the best that
> England can produce" - and the unkind bells of St Mary Abbots, which
> aggravated his incipient derangement. These and other details,
> included in letters or in the sprawling, notebook-style Pisan Cantos,
> made the ground beneath his feet, the landmarks of what Thom Gunn
> called "that marvellous first decade of publication"."
>
> Spooky. When I was ill, or just before to be correct, I'd spend the
> night hours before sleep going through the A-Z of places of my youth.
> I got this idea of time as a solid from The Watchmen. I would travel
> through this solid on an infinite of paths, re-running the moments of
> that A-Z in a slightly different way each time, thus time-travelling
> and becoming immortal. I was nearly nuts, not quite.
>
> Roger
>
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 2:32 PM, David Bircumshaw
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Guardian Books today. To think I used to use the same pub as Pound and
> > Rimbaud. Hope the link works!
> >
> >
> http://books.guardian.co.uk/poetry/features/0,,2280672,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=10
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > David Bircumshaw
> > Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> > Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
> >
>
>
>
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "She went out with her paint box, paints the chapel blue
> She went out with her matches, torched the car-wash too"
> The Go-Betweens
>
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