The cantos of ezra pound [from The Cantos of Ezra Pound (1972)]
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18531 "de Nantes 18532 il y a un prisonnier", periplum 18533 from Madrid more than 40 years earlier, 18534 Carrière show in Paris, 18535 "Bret" in la rue Grande Chaumière. 18536 the jap girl: "Mais Rembrandt" 18537 in ecstasy 18538 And the russe 18539 bringing all the "Smoke" of Turgenev. 18540 "Are" as Uncle William said "the daughters of Memory" 18541 "Pirandello, 18542 because that is the sort of thing that ... 18543 that does go on in one's mind." 18544 Whose mind? 18545 Among all these twerps and Pulitzer sponges 18546 no voice for the Constitution, 18547 No objection to the historic blackout. 18548 "My bikini is worth yr/ raft". Said Leucothae 18549 And if I see her not 18550 No sight is worth the beauty of my thought. [Page 646] 18551 The immense cowardice of advertised litterati 18552 & Elsa Kassandra, "the Baroness" 18553 von Freitag etc. sd/ several true things 18554 in the old days/ 18555 driven nuts, 18556 Well, of course, there was a certain strain 18557 on the gal in them days in Manhattan 18558 the principle of non-acquiescence 18559 laid a burden. 18560 Dinklage, where art thou, 18561 with, or without, your von? 18562 You said the teeth of the black troops 18563 reminded you of the boar-hunt, 18564 I think yr/ first boar hunt, but 18565 The black prisoners had such a nice way with children, 18566 Also what's his name who spent the night in the air 18567 caught in the mooring-ropes. 18568 Lone rock for sea-gull 18569 who can, in any case, rest on water! 18570 Do not Hindoos 18571 lust after vacuity? 18572 With the Gardasee at our disposition. 18573 "O World!" 18574 said Mr Beddoes. 18575 "Something there." 18576 sd/ Santayana. 18577 Responsus: 18578 Not stasis/ 18579 at least not in our immediate vicinage. 18580 a hand without face cards, [Page 647] 18581 the enormous organized cowardice. 18582 And there is something decent in the universe 18583 if I can feel all this, dicto millesimo 18584 At the age of whatever. 18585 I suppose St. Hilary looked at an oak-leaf. 18586 (vine-leaf? San Denys, 18587 (spelled Dionisio) 18588 Dionisio et Eleutherio. 18589 Dionisio et Eleutherio 18590 "the brace of 'em 18591 that Calvin never blacked out 18592 en l'Isle.) 18593 That the wave crashed, whirling the raft, then 18594 Tearing the oar from his hand, 18595 broke mast and yard-arm 18596 And he was drawn down under wave, 18597 The wind tossing, 18598 Notus, Boreas, 18599 as it were thistle-down. 18600 Then Leucothea had pity, 18601 "mortal once 18602 Who now is a sea-god: 18603 18604 ,..." [Page 649] THRONES DE LOS CANTARES XCVI-CIX [Page 651]
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18605 ... 18606 ... 18607 and the wave concealed her, 18608 dark mass of great water. 18609 Aestheticisme comme politique d'église, hardly religion. 18610 & on the hearth burned cedar and juniper ... 18611 that should bear him thru these diafana 18612 Aether pluit numismata 18613 Tellus vomit cadavera, 18614 Thusca quae a thure, 18615 from the name of the incense, in this province is 18616 ROMA quae olim ... 18617 In the province of Tuscany is Rome, a city which formerly ... 18618 And Sabines with a crow on their flag. 18619 Brennus came for the wine, liking its quality, 18620 Bergamo, Brescia, Ticino, 18621 & inviting his wife to drink from her father's skull 18622 (Cunimundus) a cup which I, Paulus, saw ... 18623 that Tiberius Constantine was distributist, 18624 Justinian, Chosroes, Augustae Sophiae, 18625 lumina mundi, ... 18626 or a hand out. 586 chronologically 18627 (more or less) 18628 Authar, marvelous reign, no violence and no passports, 18629 Vitalis beati 18630 More water about San Zeno than had flowed since the days of 18631 Noah
18633 15th of Childibert, a.D. 589 18634 water and snakes over the granaries. 18635 Theodolinda, Theoderic from Brunhilda, 18636 Roma caput Ecclesiae, the persians into Jerusalem 18637 and my grand-dad got out of what is now Jugoslavia 18638 with a bow, arrows and a wolf acting as guide 18639 till it thought gramp looked too hungry, 18640 comes itineris 18641 Rothar touched with the Arian heresy 18642 put father, son, ghost in that order 18643 whereas we catholics stand for equality, 18644 And here, 77 years, lombards had been in Ticino, 18645 and Rothar got some laws written down 18646 and a prolog, dope already used, 18647 even the snake cult, 585 18648 concubines, bacchatur, and a murder in 18649 San Giovanni's basilica. 18650 Constans Augustus stripped the brass tiles from the Pantheon, 18651 shipped 'em toward Constantinople, 18652 and got bumped off in his bath 18653 in Siracusa. 620 18654 Reyna says the lombards struck gold for St. Michael 18655 (Migne 95, 620) 18656 Cedwald, Architriclin 18657 From the golden font, kings lie in order of generation 18658 Cuningpert elegant, and a warrior ... 18659 de partibus Liguriae ... lubricus 18660 Aripert sank, auro gravatus, because he was carrying gold: 18661 Who shall know throstle's note from banded thrush [Page 653] 18662 by the wind in the holly bush 18663 Floods came in the Via Lata 18664 and from St. Peter's down to the bridge, Ponte Milvio 18665 et quia Karolus followed Pippin, 18666 not Plectrude's son but Alpaide's 18667 Wait, wait, Martel father of Pippin, 18668 Pippin of Charlemagne, 18669 Alpaide's son, one of 'em, not Plectrude's 18670 empty grave outside San Zeno, to the right as you face it, 18671 another bloke in Milano, "seven Cardinals attended his funeral," 18672 apud Pictavium, Aquitaine, Narbonne and Proença. 18673 Martel, that would be in the "thirties," 18674 Lombards pro Carolus: 18675 ACTUM TICINI IN PALATIO, 18676 et Arimnium, a stone in Modena by the ambon ... 18677 sent his son to Luitprand for a hair cut, 18678 kept peace with franks and avars 18679 verbo et actu corruscans [Image] 18680 Wang's middle name not in Mathews 18681 in the second year of Eirene sent Constans to Carolus Magnus 18682 sardonix pario, lilia mixta rosis, 18683 at Tyana some idea they disapproved of. 18684 DIOCLETIAN, 37th after Augustus, thought: more if we 18685 tax 'em 18686 and don't annihilate. Haud procul Salonis 18687 not far from Salo otio senuit, quietly aging, 18688 and alleged Saturn started brass currency 18689 "changing bowers for travertine" 18690 Vespasiano serenitas ... urbes renovatae 18691 Under Antoninus, 23 years without war ... apud Eboricum, [Page 654] 18692 Severus' wife spoke to Philostratus about the biography 18693 and about 1165 of the City (A.U. ab urbe) 18694 Galla Placidia, 18695 Pictorum, 18696 Vandali, 18697 "called Bosphorus from the bull tax" 18698 treaty with lombards under Justinian, 18699 goths out of Verona et Brixia, 18700 all italian "reip." under law. 18701 A memorial to archivists and librarians: 18702 Bernicoli in Ravenna, and that stuffed-shirt who 18703 wrote such an elegant postcard. 18704 Some sort of embargo, Theodora died in the 19th Justinian. 18705 And the money sellers Ablavius and Marcellus 18706 thought they would bump off Justinian. 18707 A flood of fads swilled over all Europe. 18708 But there could have been two Abduls 18709 and it would not have annoyed one. 18710 That is something to note. I mean as 18711 personality, when one says "oriental." The third bahai 18712 said nothing remarkable. Edgar Wallace had his kind of 18713 modesty. 18714 Caedual went to Roma, baptised 689 by some counting. 18715 And the Eparch's book was down somewhere under all of this, 18716 . 18717 After 500 years, still sacrificed to that sea gull, 18718 a colony of Phaeacians 18719 ALDFRID, King of Northumbria, Nordanhymbrorum 18720 defunctus 7 oh 5, 18721 Aldhelm, against errors of Britons, [Page 655] 18722 pro virginity in hexameters, 18723 de Metaplasmo, De Sinalimpha, & 18724 fads for some hundred years, 18725 a comet with its face toward Aquilo, 18726 fussed about hair-cuts, 18727 an appeal to reason is about a 13% 18728 appeal to reality, 18729 job-hunting in our time, and in the 3rd/ year of Justin 18730 Sophia Augusta 18731 made the money-sellers cough up something or other, 18732 pecuniarium venditoribus, and in the 12th 18733 took over the synagog, 18734 heaped fads on Eleusis, flame under the rubble 18735 TIBERIUS 5, 7, 3 18736 by his spending 18737 Thrax, Cappadox, [Image] 18738 Lombards, Avars. 18739 (Theophanem sequitur.) 18740 Lombards in Exarchate, MAURICIUS Imperator 18741 Barbarians enjoyed Roman calamities, 18742 calamitatibus delectabantur, 18743 equestribus speculationibus and by dealings 18744 urbem splendidam reddidit, 18745 this is MAURICIUS, five seventy seven, 18746 and of course there is no local freedom 18747 without local control of local purchasing power. 18748 Del Mar spotted "bronze to the cities," 18749 sanguinibus gaudium, homicidiis amorem, 18750 infidelitatem, jactantiam et violentiam (Hormisdae). 18751 Priscus copped the king drunk [Page 656] 18752 (Musacius) at his brother's wake, 18753 aerumnae non defuerunt variae, 18754 plenty of shindies, assorted, 18755 With eyes pervanche, 18756 all under the Moon is under Fortuna 18757 [Image] CHEN, 18758 e che permutasse. 18759 With castled ships and images Dei Matris, 18760 HERACLIUS, six, oh, two 18761 imperator simul et sponsus, 18762 found the "reip's" business unstuck, 18763 that is, Avars made Europe a desert, 18764 Persians exterminated all Asia
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18768 (which is not in Liddell D. D.), 18769 The Deacon, col. 1026, thinks it "argenteos," 18770 nummos aureos et argenteos, HERACLIUS versus Chosroes 18771 coined candle-sticks to keep off Chosroes 18772 18773 Justinian 527 18774 Tiberius Justin 18775 Mauricius 577 18776 Phocas
18778 Deutschland unter Dulles, U.S.A., slightly nostalgic 18779 by the boat-bridge over Euphrates. 18780 Wintered then in Sebastia, 18781 Laws aim? is against coercion. 18782 And called them the Golden Spears,, 18783 Avars, Bulgars, Gepidae, 18784 quatenus Hunnos, 18785 against the City, Fu Lin. 18786 Turcos quos Cazaros vocant. Six eighteen, that is. 18787 God's Mother superlaudabilis 18788 populus epulantes 18789 Deum glorificantes, 18790 pepper & zinziber, tigrides mirae magnitudinis 18791 live ones, and antelopes, 18792 and in sky a great phantom 18793 from Mesembra to Arcturus 18794 preannouncing Arabian power 18795 and in the 11th of Constans ashes from heaven, 18796 in the 12th Muhavis broke the Colossus 18797 that had stood thirteen sixty years, 18798 mille tre centos sexaginta, and 18799 sold 900 camel-loads, aere oneravit, of its brass 18800 to a jew 18801 (all this chronology seven years less than the accepted). 18802 Habdimelich made peace with the 2nd Justinian 18803 ... contra Zubir and burnt his home and his idols 18804 with their idolator, sed susciperent, we are getting to 18805 the crux of one matter
18806 Anno sexto imperii sui Justinianus (the second) 18807 pacem, quam ad Habdimelich habuit, ex amentia 18808 dissolvit, et omnem Cypriorum insulam, et populum 18809 irrationabiliter voluit transmigrare, et characterem 18810 qui missus fuerat ab Habdimelich, eum noviter visus 18811 esset ... et his auditis Habdimelich satanice stimu- 18812 latus rogabat ne pax solveretur, sed susciperent mo- 18813 netam suam, cum Arabes non susciperent Roma- 18814 norum incisionem in suis nummis. Verum dato 18815 pondere auri ait: Nullum Romanis damnum effici- 18816 tur, ex eo quod Arabes nova cuderent ... 18817 Quod et factum est, et misit Habdimelich ad aedifi- 18818 candum templum Muchan, et voluit auferre co- 18819 lumnas ... 18820 ---col. 1060, The Deacon, Migne's Patrologia. 18821 In fact this item, with that bit from the Eparch's edict 18822 which was still there for Kemal in our time, 18823 PANTA'REI, said DuBellay translating, 18824 the base shall we say, and the slide of Byzantium, 18825 bags, baskets full of, presumably, coinage, 18826 and lured twenty thousand sclavons. 18827 And in the 7th Absimarus Habdimelich died 18828 and Justinian came back thru the aqueduct. 18829 Franks out of Thrace in periplum, 18830 Blood in Watling St, ruin'd by vicarious government. 18831 Hyacinthinis, 18832 why not fake purple, 18833 vocabulary not Dr. Liddell's, 18834 chastised and brought into the house (coom ben) [Page 659] 18835 verberator et bonis mulcator 18836
18837 register all silk purchases over ten aurei 18838 (Nicole: purpureas vestes) 18839 but the is rather nice, Dr. Nicole, 18840 before the 18841 and the idea of just price is somewhere, 18842 the haggling, somewhere, 18843 also 18844 quite beautifully used [Image] tzu3 18845 tho' utopian
18847 that is "mouthy" 18848 forensic [Image] to2-5 18849 babbler [Image] chu1 18850 as on the East bank from Beaucaire 18851
18852 not stamped with the prefect's seal 18853
18854 Ducange: 18855 Here, surely, is a refinement of language If we never write anything save what is already understood, the field of understanding will never be extended. One demands the right, now and again, to write for a few people with special interests and whose curiosity reaches into greater detail.
[Page 660] 18857 18858 Wd / appear to be tetarteron tokens 18859 not affecting the aureus 18860 vel pactum pretium augens 18861 and a few words about hoarding 18862
18863 house rent 18864
18865 "Sire, dist Hues ..." 18866 that was de Bosschère, 18867 leather for carriages, not for footwear, 18868 Xoirempers do not buy sheep 18869 or hide pigs in the house of an arkhon 18870
18871 Who useth an unstamped stater 18872 ad pretium empti 18873 18874 that's how Nicole slanted it, grave on the omicron, 18875 meaning one aureus, bankers 18876 to profit one keration 2 miliarisia 18877 iacgr; 18878 and no liturgy (as above) 18879 nor their beasts, 18880 but that baking be uninterrupted 18881 and that they take due care against fire. 18882 TAVERNERS are to inform the prefect of wine's arrival 18883 that he arrange the modus of sale 18884 ... ... 18885 constraining' em to analogous ezonesis. 18886 Stathmos, usually weight & aggaîa, vessels [Page 661] 18887 fitting in, working together. 18888 The stathmon shd / hold 30 litras 18889 and the mina, as it is called, shd / be 3, 18890 And on great holidays and the Lord's day 18891 not to open before 2 o'clock 18892 by whatever 2 that was reckoned 18893 18894 and at the second hour of night 18895 18896 lock up & 18897 put out their cook-fires 18898 , a cauldron 18899 & those who have been loafing all day there 18900 not to come back at night and raise ructions 18901 18902 "Constantinople" said Wyndham "our star," 18903 Mr. Yeats called it Byzantium, 18904 emphorio, to be borne about, to be filled with 18905 oinos, the fermented 18906 katakremnízo, to throw down or headlong 18907 diaphora, variance 18908 bias, vigors 18909 and if wine-seller be found with false measures 18910 & not bearing the proper seals 18911 shall be smacked, cropped and 18912 put out of the sunthema 18913 18914 seem to be foreign importers, 18915 are to stay 3 months only, 18916 the name ought to explain what it means [Page 662] 18917 but doesn't exactly 18918 dealin' with animals , in the Foro Amastriani 18919 18920 some animals are imperfect. 18921 RE all contractors for fine work, plaster, 18922 marble, askothurarion, paint & the rest of 'em 18923 18924 an askós is a leather bag, 18925 with inane loquacity hoisting the wages 18926
18927 lubberly, westerly 18928 the stench of the profit motive has covered their names 18929 and that louse G. burnt the Palatine 18930 and messed up the music 18931 to speak clearly 18932 , insatiate 18933 This is not a mere stunt to lay fines 18934 as is found in the hodge-podge. 18935 a round building 18936 arched over 18937 all to be unlikely to fall 18938 & experienced 18939 the foundation, not wobbly 18940 After all Justinian's boy had built Santa Sophia 18941 "vurry," says Pearson, N.H. "in' erestin'." 18942 out of odd hollows and solids 18943 , slanty 18944 There is an ideogram somewhere in Morrison, 18945 de Saumase, de Reitz 18946 , , , [Page 663] 18947 after Julien d'Askalon: fire, air, water, earth, 18948 the old men on the swaying 18949 , raw leather 18950 , softeners, second process 18951 18952 the baker from his four, 18953 governors, oveners 18954 No yugo-slav to propose to a girl 18955 until he has planted trees, 50 olives 18956 (Ronnie, this year) 18957 18958 and the chaplains of cabarets 18959 & that Nicephoras 18960 kolobozed the tetarteron 18961 need not have applied to the aureus 18962 or caused Nicole to understand token coinage 18963 in the long war between episkeptiks 18964 and any andrárion agorîan kai bánauson 18965 (currently rendered as s.o.b.) 18966 12% says Nicole, illegal 18967 18968 ( ) 18969 acc. the quality. 18970 Good-bye to the sun, Autumn is dying 18971 18972 whom the ooze cannot blacken 18973 clarore. 18974 And in the sixth year of this Justinian the devil got 18975 into Habdimelich, satanice stimulatus, who said if
18977 will do no harm to the Romans. Ut supra, as before 18978 stated in latin. And he wanted some columns for 18979 Muchan. 18980 iustitiae ... nihil antiquius 18981 "Honest feathers" says Dante, or: "What about murder?" 18982 De Officiis, TWO, 89: "Quid occidere?" 18983 Pascere satis, or in the '20s (our time) 18984 driving latin out of the schools 18985 (France or whereso) 18986 humiles non omnes improbi. Cicero 18987 mousing round the edge of the paddock. 18988 "An ater, an albus" Catullus in interrogative. 18989 "Queer cuss with a sense of humour," Tully observing: 18990 Nihil ... antiquius 18991 and no such blue north of Capri 18992 as on the side toward Peschiera, 18993 Ocelle Veronensis. 18994 Under Leo 18995 "Following God's example Our Serenity 18996 (, as of the sea) 18997 to stop trampling by one on another 18998 have codified 18999 (To Professor Nicole's annoyance) Leo 886-911 19000 : may buy linen to line bombazine 19001 "les arrhes du marché" re/ the drapers 19002 19003 And the notary 19004 must have some general culture or he will [Page 665] 19005 make a mess of the contracts. 19006 : may buy gold, silver, pearls, 19007 but not copper 19008 ni cuivre ni tissus de lin 19009 that is, not for resale. 19010 Not hoard' em and hold for a rise, 19011 any perfumer 19012 who wangles to get another's rent hoisted 19013 19014 shall be shaved, whipped and chucked out. 19015 And not hold up coin either; 19016 foreigners to sell in three months and leave, 19017 Perfumers not to buy groceries, 19018 but nard, aloe-wood, cinnamon, 19019 stick to what's sold on a two pan balance, not a "romaine" 19020 a stadera, one of those things with a yard-arm. 19021 Let him be either perfumer or grocer, 19022 Candle-makers to work in their own ergastorios; 19023 and that 19024 grocers may open shops anywhere 19025 so that one can get groceries anywhere / 19026 And if his weights aren't stamped with the prefect's seal 19027 profits at 16 and ¾ ths (two miliarisia) 19028 No baker or mill beast shall be subject to other service, 19029 bread must go on, 19030 No ovens in anyone's cellar 19031 and that they go to the Prefect when the grain price 19032 rises or falls 19033 to find the right bread price, 19034 Whoso tries any monkey-shines [Page 666] 19035 shall be put on a jackass and led through the streets quite 19036 slowly, 19037 flogged, shaved, and put out. Wine shops 19038 will close at 8 in the evening. 19039 Anybody wanting to put up a cupola must prove experience. 19040 If a wall falls inside of ten years the builder, 19041 unless he can prove god's wrath must 19042 put it up again at his own cost. Yüklə 2,9 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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