RE: william blake
Nick Jarrett (njarrett@oz.net)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:43:53 -0700
Right... the thing one must remember is that it was intended to be angst.
Coming from the mouth of a 20/23 yr old, being treated by a boy, who had
been shot in the hand be his married, gay lover Paul Verlaine, forced to
recuperate at home (the place he'd been fleeing from all his life) with a
mother who was probably disapproving in the extreme of his activities in
Paris. I have to think a little bit of angst is justified.
Now if you'd like Rimbaud with less angst, try the "Illuminations." Very
esoteric, very neat stuff that - largely incomprehensible, but, oh well. :)
Pax,
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> From: owner-bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> [mailto:owner-bananafish@lists.nyu.edu]On Behalf Of Camille Scaysbrook
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 2:43 AM
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: william blake
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>
> Jim wrote:
> > Thanks for the recommendation for Rimbaud :)
>
> I chanced upon `A Season in Hell' the other day, it used to be up there
> with Catcher as a teenage bible for me. Now it just seems like so much
> angst. Not a bad thing necessarily but you need to be in a particular sort
> of headspace while you're reading it (:
>
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