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Not to mitigate the sincerity of the quote here, Hal, but the 'alchemy du verbe' does not seem to be a lot different than most serious love relationships - you know where two people are walking beside or in front and back of each other and something in the air radiates any number of 'the nuances' or tensions (from amorous to contrariness), along with an implied evidence that a 'great deal of effort' has already gone into producing this enduring (at least one hopes these days) combination of partners? Stephen V http://stephenvincent.net/blog/ > "I placed one word beside another and finally with a great deal > of effort managed to create a whole sentence--naturally not one > that 'meant something' but one that was composed of word- > nuances. It was the hidden meaning that I was seeking--a kind > of Alchimie du Verbe. One word has its meaning and another > has its own, but when they are brought together something > strange happens to them: they have an in-between connotation > at the same time as they retain their original individual meanings . . . > Poetry is this very tension-filled relationship between the words, > between the lines, between meanings." > > --Gunnar Ekelöf, tr. Auden & Sjöberg > > > Hal > > "Balthus is a painter about whom nothing is known." > --Balthus > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > [log in to unmask] > [log in to unmask] > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org