12.13.2007

and now for a poem i only sort of understand.

"...that also was an era (Mr. W. Rummel)
an era of croissants
then an era of pains au lait
and the eucalyptus bobble is missing
"Come pan, niño!"
that was an era also, and Spanish bread
was made out of grain in that era
senesco
sed amo
Madri', Sevilla, C
órdoba,
there was grain equally in the bread of that era
senesco sed amo
Gervais must have put milk in his cheese
(and the mortal fatigue of action postponed)
and Las Meniñas hung in a room by themselves
and Philip horsed and not horsed and the dwarfs
and Don Juan of Austria
Bred, the Virgin, Los Boracchios
are they all now in the Prado?..."

-Ezra Pound, Canto LXXX

Now I go work off the stress of finals with romantic comedies.



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