The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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13739 for immediate scope 13740 things have ends (or scopes) and beginnings. To 13741 know what precedes and what follows 13742 [Image] [Image]
13744 vide also Epictetus and Syrus 13745 As Arcturus passes over my smoke-hole 13746 the excess electric illumination 13747 is now focussed 13748 on the bloke who stole a safe he cdn't open 13749 (interlude entitled: periplum by camion) 13750 and Awoi's hennia plays hob in the tent flaps 13751 k-lakk..... thuuuuuu 13752 making rain 13753 uuuh 13754 2, 7, hooo 13755 der im Baluba 13756 Faasa ! 4 times was the city remade, 13757 now in the heart indestructible 13758 4 gates, the 4 towers 13759 (Il Scirocco è geloso) 13760 men rose out of 13761 Agada, Ganna, Silla, 13762 and Mt Taishan is faint as the wraith of my first friend 13763 who comes talking ceramics; 13764 mist glaze over mountain [Image] 13765 "How is it far, if you think of it?" 13766 Came Boreas and his kylin [Image] 13767 to brreak the corporal's heart
13769 next day 13770 with the shadow of the gibbets attendant 13771 The Pisan clouds are undoubtedly various 13772 and splendid as any I have seen since 13773 at Scudder's Falls on the Schuylkill 13774 by which stream I seem to recall a feller 13775 settin' in a rudimentary shack doin' nawthin' 13776 not fishin', just watchin' the water, 13777 a man of about forty-five 13778 nothing counts save the quality of the affection 13779 mouth, is the sun that is god's mouth 13780 or in another connection (periplum) [Image] 13781 the studio on the Regent's canal 13782 Theodora asleep on the sofa, the young 13783 Daimio's "tailor's bill" 13784 or Grishkin's photo refound years after 13785 with the feeling that Mr Eliot may have 13786 missed something, after all, in composing his vignette 13787 periplum 13788 (the dance is a medium) 13789 "To his native mountain" 13790 13791 a little flame for a little 13792 conserved in the Imperial ballet, never danced in a theatre 13793 Kept as Justinian left it 13794 Padre José had understood something or other 13795 before the deluxe car carried him over the precipice [Page 467] 13796 sumne fugol othbaer 13797 learned what the Mass meant, 13798 how one shd/ perform it [Image] 13799 the dancing at Corpus the toys in the 13800 service at Auxerre 13801 top, whip, and the rest of them. [Image] 13802 [I heard it in the s.h. a suitable place 13803 to hear that the war was over] [Image] 13804 the scollop of the sky shut down on its pearl 13805 Ida. 13806 With drawn sword as at Nemi [Image] 13807 day comes after day 13808 and the liars on the quai at Siracusa [Image] 13809 still vie with Odysseus 13810 seven words to a bomb 13811 dum capitolium scandet 13812 the rest is explodable [Image] 13813 Very potent, can they again put one together 13814 as the two halves of a seal, or a tally stick? 13815 Shun's will and [Image] 13816 King Wan's will 13817 were as the two halves of a seal [Image] 13818 ½s 13819 in the Middle Kingdom 13820 Their aims as one 13821 directio voluntatis, as lord over the heart [Image] 13822 the two sages united
13824 had not left it in metric [Image] 13825 "halves of a seal," 13826 Voltaire choosing almost as I had 13827 to finish his "Louis Quatorze" 13828 and as to the distributive function [Image] 13829 1766 ante Christum 13830 it is recorded, and the state can lend money 13831 as proved at Salamis 13832 and for notes on monopoly 13833 Thales; and credit, Siena; 13834 both for the trust and the mistrust; 13835 "the earth belongs to the living" 13836 interest on all it creates out of nothing 13837 the buggering bank has; pure iniquity 13838 and to change the value of money, of the unit of 13839 money 13840 METATHEMENON 13841 we are not yet out of that chapter 13842 Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel 13843 , 13844 Moving enters the hall of the records 13845 the forms of men rose out of 13846 Le Paradis n'est pas artificiel 13847 nor does the martin against the tempest 13848 fly as in the calm air 13849 "like an arrow, and under bad government 13850 like an arrow" 13851 "Missing the bull's eye seeks the cause in himself" 13852 "only the total sincerity, the precise definition" 13853 and no sow's ear from silk purse 13854 even in that case ... 13855 the clouds over Pisa, over the two teats of Tellus,
13857 he (Cocteau) is too good a poet." 13858 Well, Campari is gone since that day 13859 with Dieudonné and with Voisin 13860 and Gaudier's eye on the telluric mass of Miss Lowell 13861 "the mind of Plato ... or that of Bacon" said Upward 13862 seeking parallel for his own 13863 "Haff you gno bolidigal basshunts?.... 13864 Demokritoos, Heragleitos" exclaimed Doktor Slonimsky 1912 13865 So Miscio sat in the dark lacking the gasometer penny 13866 but then said: "Do you speak German?" 13867 to Asquith, in 1914 13868 "How Ainley face work all the time 13869 back of that mask" 13870 But Mrs Tinkey never believed he wanted her cat 13871 for mouse-chasing 13872 and not for oriental cuisine 13873 "Jap'nese dance all time overcoat" he remarked 13874 with perfect precision 13875 "Just like Jack Dempsey's mitts" sang Mr Wilson 13876 so that you cd/ crack a flea on eider wan 13877 ov her breasts 13878 sd/ the old Dublin pilot 13879 or the precise definition 13880 bel seno (in rimas escarsas, vide sopra)
13882 so kissed the earth after sleeping on concrete 13883 bel seno copulatrix 13884 thy furrow 13885 in limbo no victories, there, are no victories--- 13886 that is limbo; between decks of the slaver 13887 10 years, 5 years 13888 "If he wd/ only get rid of Ciano" groaned the admiral 13889 "people who are used to take orders" he said 13890 when the fleet surrendered 13891 "I would do it" (finish off Ciano) "with a pinch of 13892 insecticide." 13893 said Chilanti's 12 year old daughter. 13894 Sold the school-house at Gais, 13895 cut down the woods whose leaves served for bedding cattle 13896 so there was a lack of manure ... 13897 for losing the law of Chung Ni, 13898 hence the valise set by the alpino's statue in Brunik 13899 and the long lazy float of the banners 13900 and similar things occurred in Dalmatia 13901 lacking that treasure of honesty 13902 which is the treasure of states 13903 and the dog-damn wop is not, save by exception, 13904 honest in administration any more than the briton is truthful 13905 Jactancy, vanity, peculation to the ruin of 20 years' labour 13906 bells over Petano ... are softer than other bells 13907 remembering Alice and Edmée 13908 till the dog Arlechino makes his round 13909 blanket holding the hills' form in cloudy aurora
13911 E la Miranda was the only one who changed personality 13912 changing her roles 13913 Which fact, it wd/ seem, escaped most, if not all, of the critics 13914 "If you had a f....n' brain you'd be dangerous" 13915 remarks Romano Ramona 13916 to a by him designated c.s. in the scabies ward 13917 the army vocabulary contains almost 48 words 13918 one verb and participle one substantive 13919 one adjective and one phrase sexless that is 13920 used as a sort of pronoun 13921 from a watchman's club to a vamp or fair lady 13922 And Margherita's voice was clear as the notes of a clavichord 13923 tending her rabbit hutch, 13924 O Margaret of the seven griefs 13925 who hast entered the lotus 13926 "Trade, trade, trade .." sang Lanier 13927 and they say the gold her grandmother carried under her 13928 skirts for Jeff Davis 13929 drowned her when she slipped from the landing boat; 13930 doom of Atreus 13931 (O Mercury god of thieves, your caduceus 13932 is now used by the american army 13933 as witness this packing case) 13934 Born with Buddha's eye south of Mason and Dixon 13935 as against: 13936 Ils n'existent pas, leur ambience leur confert 13937 une existence ... and in the case of [Page 472] 13938 Emanuel Swedenborg.... "do not argue" 13939 in the 3rd sphere do not argue 13940 above which, the lotus, white nenuphar 13941 Kuanon, the mythologies 13942 we who have passed over Lethe 13943 there are in fact several coarse expressions used in the 13944 army and Monsieur Barzun had, indubitably, an idea, about anno 13945 domini 1910 but I do not know what he has done with it 13946 for I wd/ steal no man's raison 13947 and old André 13948 preached vers libre with Isaiaic fury, and sent me to old Rousselot 13949 who fished for sound in the Seine 13950 and led to detectors 13951 "an animal" he said "which seeks to conceal the 13952 sound of its foot-steps" 13953 L'Abbé Rousselot 13954 who wrapped up De Sousa's poems (fin oreille) 13955 and besought me to do likewise returning them 13956 lest his housekeeper know that he had them. 13957 "Un curé déguisé" sd/ Cocteau's of Maritain 13958 "Me parait un curé déguisé" A la porte 13959 "Sais pas, Monsieur, il me parait un curé déguisé. 13960 "Thought" said M. Cocteau "that I was among men of letters 13961 and then perceived a group of mechanics and garage assistants." 13962 "As long as Daudet is alive they will never have him 13963 in the Académic Goncourt" 13964 sd/ La Comtesse de Rohan, and Mr Martin 13965 we believe did a similar wrong to his party [Page 473] 13966 "30,000, they thought they were clever, 13967 why, Hell / they cd/ have had it for 6000 dollars, 13968 and after Landon they picked Wendell Willkie 13969 Roi je ne suis, prince je ne daigne 13970 Citizen of Florence, cd/ not receive noble titles 13971 but carry the arms to this day 13972 who resisted at Arbia when the fools wd/ have burnt down 13973 Florence "in gran dispitto" "men used to obeying orders" 13974 "there was also the King who signed those decrees" 13975 se casco, non casco in ginocchion' 13976 ---niggers comin' over the obstacle fence 13977 as in the insets at the Schifanoja 13978 (del Cossa) to scale, 10,000 gibbet-iform posts supporting 13979 barbed wire 13980 "St. Louis Till" as Green called him. Latin! 13981 "I studied latin" said perhaps his smaller companion. 13982 "Hey Snag, what's in the bibl'? 13983 what are the books of the bibl'? 13984 Name 'em! don't bullshit me!" 13985 "Hobo Williams, the queen of them all" 13986 "Hey / Crawford, come over here /" 13987 Roma profugens Sabinorum in terras 13988 "Sligo in heaven" murmured uncle William 13989 when the mist finally settled down on Tigullio 13990 But Mr Joyce requested sample menus from the leading hotels 13991 and Kitson had tinkered with lights on the Vetta 13992 Mist covers the breasts of Tellus-Helena and drifts up the Arno 13993 came night and with night the tempest 13994 "How is it far, if you think of it?"
13998 Thus saith Kabir: "Politically" said Rabindranath 13999 "they are inactive. They think, but then there is 14000 climate, they think but it is warm or there are flies or 14001 some insects" 14002 "And with the return of the gold standard" wrote Sir Montagu 14003 "every peasant had to pay twice as much grain 14004 to cover his taxes and interest" 14005 It is true that the interest is now legally lower 14006 but the banks lend to the bunya 14007 who can thus lend more to his victims 14008 and the snot press and periodical tosh does not notice this 14009 thus saith Kabir, by hypostasis 14010 if they can take Hancock's wharf they can take your cow 14011 or my barn 14012 and the Kohinoor and the rajah's emerald etc. 14013 and Tom wore a tin disc, a circular can-lid 14014 with his name on it, solely: 14015 for Wanjina has lost his mouth, 14016 For nowt so much as a just peace 14017 That wd/ obstruct future wars 14018 as witness the bombardment at Frascati after the armistice 14019 had been signed 14020 who live by debt and war profiteering 14021 Das Bankgeschäft 14022 ".... of the Wabash cannon ball" [Page 475] 14023 in flat Ferrarese country seemed the same as here under Taishan 14024 men move to scale as in Del Cossa's insets 14025 at Schifanoja under the Ram and Bull 14026 in the house-boats bargaining half a day for ten bob's worth 14027 of turquoise 14028 mind come to plenum when nothing more will go into it 14029 the wind mad as Cassandra 14030 who was as sane as the lot of 'em 14031 Sorella, mia sorella, 14032 che ballava sobr' un zecchin' 14033 [Image] bringest to focus [Image]
14034 ch'êng Zagreus ch'êng 14035 Zagreus
CANTO 77 Explication [Image] 1 - middle [Image] 2 - precede [Image] 3 - follow [Image] 4 - how (is it) [Image] far [Image] 5 - dawn [Image] 6 - mouth [Image] 7 - not [Image] one's own [Image] spirit [Image] and [Image] sacrifice [Image] is [Image] flattery [Image] bi gosh
[Image] 8 - halves of a tally stick [Image] 9 - direction of one's will [Image] 10 - perfect or focus [Page 477]
LXXVIII
14036 By the square elm of Ida 14037 40 geese are assembled 14038 (little sister who could dance on a sax-pence) 14039 to arrange a pax mundi 14040 Sobr' un zecchin'! 14041 Cassandra, your eyes are like tigers, 14042 with no word written in them 14043 You also have I carried to nowhere 14044 to an ill house and there is 14045 no end to the journey. 14046 The chess board too lucid 14047 the squares are too even ... theatre of war ... 14048 "theatre" is good. There are those who did not want 14049 it to come to an end 14050 and those negroes by the clothes-line are extraordinarily like the 14051 figures del Cossa 14052 Their green does not swear at the landscape 14053 2 months' life in 4 colours 14054 ter flebiliter: Ityn 14055 to close the temple of Janus bifronte 14056 the two-faced bastard 14057 "and the economic war has begun" 14058 Napoleon wath a goodth man, it took uth 14059 20 yearth to crwuth him 14060 it will not take uth 20 years to crwuth Mussolini" 14061 as was remarked in via Balbo by the Imperial Chemicals 14062 its brother. 14063 Firms failed as far off as Avignon ... 14064 ... my red leather note-book
14066 by his own talk in Naples, Lorenzo 14067 who left lyrics inoltre 14068 that men sing to this day 14069 "alla terra abbandonata" 14070 followed him Metastasio; 14071 "alla" non "della" in il Programma di Verona 14072 the old hand as stylist still holding its cunning 14073 and the water flowing away from that side of the lake 14074 is silent as never at Sirmio 14075 under the arches 14076 Foresteria, Salò, Gardone 14077 to dream the Republic. San Sepolchro 14078 the four bishops in metal 14079 lapped by the flame, amid ruin, la fede--- 14080 reliquaries seen on the altar. 14081 "Someone to take the blame if we slip up on it" 14082 Goedel's sleek head in the midst of it, 14083 the man out of Naxos past Fara Sabina 14084 "if you will stay for the night" 14085 "it is true there is only one room for the lot of us" 14086 "money is nothing" 14087 "no, there is nothing to pay for that bread" 14088 "nor for the minestra" 14089 "Nothing left here but women" 14090 "Have lugged it this far, will keep it" (il zaino) 14091 No, they will do nothing to you. 14092 "Who says he is an American" 14093 a still form on the branda, Bologna 14094 "Gruss Gott," "Der Herr!" "Tatile ist gekommen!" 14095 Slow lift of long banners 14096 Roma profugens Sabinorum in terras 14097 and belt the citye quahr of nobil fame 14098 the lateyn peopil taken has their name 14099 bringing his gods into Latium
14101 "Ere he his goddis brocht in Latio" 14102 "each one in the name" 14103 in whom are the voices, keeping hand on the reins 14104 Gaudier's word not blacked out 14105 nor old Hulme's, nor Wyndham's, 14106 Mana aboda. 14107 The touch of sadism in the back of his neck 14108 tinting justice, "Steele that is one awful name." 14109 sd/ the cheerful reflective nigger 14110 Blood and Slaughter to help him 14111 dialog repartee at the drain hole 14112 Straight as the bar of a ducking stool "got his pride" 14113 get to the states you can buy it 14114 Don't try that here 14115 the bearded owl making catcalls 14116 Pallas sustain me 14117 "definition can not be shut down under a box lid" 14118 but if the gelatine be effaced whereon is the record? 14119 "wherein is no responsible person 14120 having a front name, a hind name and an address" 14121 "not a right but a duty" 14122 those words still stand uncancelled, 14123 "Presente!" 14124 and merrda for the monopolists 14125 the bastardly lot of 'em 14126 Put down the slave trade, made the desert to yield 14127 and menaced the loan swine 14128 Sitalkas, double Sitalkas 14129 "not the priest but the victim" 14130 said Allen Upward 14131 knew something was phoney, when he (Pellegrini) 14132 sd/: the money is there. 14133 Knowledge lost with Justinian, and with Titus and Antoninus 14134 ("law rules the sea" meaning lex Rhodi)
14136 No! Or the story of property 14137 to Rostovseff (is it Rostovseff?) 14138 nothing worse than fixed charge 14139 several years' average 14140 Mencius III, 1. T'ang Wan Kung 14141 Chapter 3 and verse 7 14142 Be welcome, O cricket my grillo, but you must not 14143 sing after taps. 14144 Guard's cap quattrocento 14145 o-hon dit que'ke fois au vi'age 14146 qu'une casque ne sert pour rien 14147 'hien de tout 14148 Cela ne sert que pour donner courage 14149 a ceux qui n'en ont pas de tout 14150 So Salzburg reopens 14151 Qui suona Wolfgang grillo 14152 Po viola da gamba 14153 one might do worse than open a pub on Lake Garda 14154 so one thinks of 14155 Tailhade and "Willy" (Gauthier-Villars) 14156 and of Mockel and La Wallonie ... en casque 14157 de crystal rose les baladines 14158 with the cakeshops in the Nevsky 14159 and Sirdar, Armenonville or the Kashmiri house-boats 14160 en casque de crystal rose les baladines 14161 messed up Monsieur Mozart's house 14162 but left the door of the new concert hall 14163 So he said, looking at the signed columns in San Zeno 14164 "how the hell can we get any architecture 14165 when we order our columns by the gross?" 14166 red marble with a stone loop cast round it, four shafts, 14167 and Farinata, kneeling in the cortile, 14168 built like Ubaldo, that's race, [Page 481] 14169 Can Grande's grin like Tommy Cochran's 14170 "E fa di clarità l'aer tremare" 14171 thus writ, and conserved (or was) in Verona 14172 So we sat there by the arena, 14173 outside, Thiy and il decaduto 14174 the lace cuff fallen over his knuckles 14175 considering Rochefoucauld 14176 but the program (Cafe Dante) a literary program 1920 or 14177 thereabouts was neither published nor followed 14178 Griffith said, years before that,: "Can't move 'em with 14179 a cold thing like economics I am pledged not to 14180 come here (London) to Parliament" 14181 Aram vult nemus 14182 as under the rain altars 14183 asking how to discover delusions (confusions) 14184 "Chose Kao-yao and the crooks disappeared." 14185 "Chose I Yin and the crooks toddled off." 14186 2 hours of living, knew when they left 14187 that there wd/ be one hell of a fight in the senate 14188 Lodge, Knox against world entanglement 14189 Two with him in the whole house against the constriction of 14190 Bacchus 14191 moved to repeal that god-damned amendment 14192 Number XVIII 14193 Mr Tinkham 14194 Geneva the usurers' dunghill 14195 Frogs, brits, with a few dutch pimps 14196 as top dressing to preface extortions 14197 and the usual filthiness 14198 for detail see Odon's neat little volume 14199 , that is, for a few of the more obvious details, 14200 the root stench being usura and METATHEMENON 14201 and Churchill's return to Midas broadcast by his liary. 14202 "No longer necessary," taxes are no longer necessary 14203 in the old way if it (money) be based on work done
14205 requirements 14206 inside the nation or system 14207 [Image] 14208 and cancelled in proportion Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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