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«Cut-ups are for everyone»: Margin Notes to «A Cut-up Fragment Rearranged»Cluster the First
… in the beginning was the cut-up word … Back in 1976, Oeuvres Croisée was unknown in Italy. Almost no hints were available on the cut-up and fold-in techniques, but some quotations from The Exterminator and from «Censorship, notes on these pages», in...
Stray Scrap
July 23 9:00 arrive before time Le 27 septembre 1933, une fois de plus sans que rien de conscient en moi ne la provoque, alors que, plus tôt que de coutume, vers 11 heures du soir je cherche à m’endormir, j’enregistre une de ces suites de mots comme prononcés...
«Cut-ups are for everyone»: Margin Notes to «A Cut-up Fragment Rearranged»A Prelude
We linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood,and they are half forgotten ere we have learned the language. Henry David Thoreau … dim, gone bad, almost invisible scars of war … a faded enchantment inserted into the resulting time track … for...
«Il profilo dellisola di Avalon, quale è descritta nella Vita Merlini» (AVALON: Appunti dinvito alla lettura«Intermezzo paradisinfero»IV.2)
Il profilo dell’isola di Avalon, quale è descritta nella Vita Merlini (vv. 908-40), s’innalza da un oceano mitologico—magistralmente riassunto nella lunga citazione da Arturo Graf—in cui s’intrecciano le correnti greco-latine—con le Isole dei Beati, le...
Waning Away (The Green Window Sequence)
«Oh, how like in feature to the Goddesses above!» Homer (Translated by William Cowper) … blue grey haze of sadness in her eyes as blue grey as a cloudy sky at dusk / love shadows, gambling cards, green cloth / both alone & afar, she walks away & he stands...
«I Celti, come scrisse Arturo Graf» (AVALON: Appunti dinvito alla lettura«Intermezzo paradisinfero»IV.1)
I Celti, come scrisse Arturo Graf nel suo bellissimo Miti, leggende e superstizioni del medio evo, «ponevano di là dall’Oceano Atlantico il soggiorno dei beati. […] Secondo la dottrina loro, “gli uomini hanno per primo progenitore il dio della morte”»,...
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Eye & the Spy: Some Haphazardly Clustered Quotes & Notes
… a sort of floating, disembodied eye which sees all manner of marvellous phenomena without being greatly affected by them … conditions, atmospheres, appearances, and intangible things of that kind … (Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Selected Letters 1929-1931,...
From A Crossway (The Green Window Sequence)
«Il n’est pas d’objet plus profond, plus mystérieux, plus fécond, plus ténébreux, plus éblouissant qu’une fenêtre éclairée d’une chandelle.» Charles Baudelaire, Les Fenêtres … looking upwards from a crossway’s corner, waste papers whirling in the wind,...
Wholly Alone & Fading Away (The Green Window Sequence)
… marvellously like is she to theimmortal goddesses to look upon … Homer, Iliad (Translated by W. Leaf) … in death, from glowing murky waters, her eyes staring at the night sky, a damp breeze brushing her cold breasts, mist torn & rent, unwound & adrift…...