Having been rendered hand-mention-sensitized, as it were, by my concordance of hands in Winesburg, Ohio, I immediately stood upright when John Unterecker, in his biography of Hart Crane, called attention to Crane’s early poem “Episode of Hands.”

This poem could easily describe a situation in Winesburg, (a worker bandages another worker’s injured hand, which is a point of personal connection between them), and the plot thickens a bit because Crane had certainly read the Winesburg stories and was indeed a correspondent of Anderson’s.

The question consequently arose: Did this poem reveal a conscious or unconscious lifting of the hand motif from Winesburg?

The answer is — probably no. At least, this doesn’t appear to have occurred to Anderson himself, to whom Crane sent the poem, and who was severely critical of it on separate grounds. (This is discussed by Unterecker on pp.167-168 of Voyager.)

I suppose it would have interested me to know that either Crane or Anderson were conscious of those Winesburg hand repetitions, but there is no evidence of anything of that kind here. It would be interesting, nevertheless, to see Anderson’s full response to the poem.

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Against the Day, pp. 601:

… who hoped to define here among the dueling clubs of Gottingen a “control group” for examining the deeper meanings of facial inscription, especially as practiced among northern tribes of the Andaman Islands

Island chain in the Bay of Bengal. maps, wiki.

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His thought was that there was a small ring in himself, envisioned as an unadorned wedding band, through which all his behavior and each of his thoughts must pass, every impulse to action and expression, in order to authentically be itself and be truly appropriate to himself. The ring was what made his behavior authentic….The Nature of The Ring, its Position and Cruelty

Random Amheric

fee-uh, goat….Digame, refill … *** Bair… door (not burrr — money). Bottle: Thairmus (thermos with eta for e, theta for th) Cup: coo — bi — ya. Mirror (or glass — window): mustaught (muhstalt) . Soft — sounds like sooft or so.. *** yermigernagar… strange / yemigern… (incredible) … aschagaray… (strange) t(h)ahmumma… (sort of insult, “negative”) …
dena-derachu … good morning (to a group) denansh … to a woman.

Random James Cleveland

James Cleveland / “Where Is Your Faith In God” – Rev. James Cleveland– –Peace Be Still

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South Hampton Variations (4), Frank O’Hara:

Sky smoldering with snow, and the light grey/ taupe claws asseverating the solid air, so/ imperious in definition, knowing the evergreens/ will go envious in months soon and indeterminate […]

Taupe.

Then Harry said to Fritz he thought it was time to begin. Then Barry said to Burgundy, he thought it was time to begin. Then Juphtha said to Arnold, who then told Harry, who said he already knew and had heard himself, that he thought it was time to begin… Time to begin

The Libation Bearers, 61-65 (Trans. Smyth: But the balance of Justice keeps watch: swiftly it descends on those in the light; sometimes pain waits for those who linger on the frontier of twilight; and others are claimed by strengthless night.).

ῥοπὴ δ᾽ ἐπισκοπεῖ δίκας
ταχεῖα τοὺς μὲν ἐν φάει,
τὰ δ᾽ ἐν μεταιχμίῳ σκότου
μένει χρονίζοντας ἄχη βρύει,
τοὺς δ᾽ ἄκραντος ἔχει νύξ.

what specific activity of the stream results in the specific sound of the stream.

Swann rejoices in the stability and order of his household, the soundness of his investments.

Strabo argues that, the effluvium of the rivers does not fill up the seas, because the seas naturally purge themselves of what comes out of the land, casts it back. The Ship wracks, bodies of porpoises.

Septima Entraga de la Saga: seventh episode of the series. A preview — adelante.

An unreal spirit of levity, of hysterical silliness, seems to pervade me and to prevent me from being Fernando Pessoa (noted)

A hard current of air one’s metal wings scrape at, and grow hot against, but cannot push through or go against: one’s silliness (noted.)

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To show the interior forces at work as a person’s “Zelig-ness” comes into play, the individual’s consciousness as it turns from facet to facet. To show behavior, of this or another sort, as a series of logical or poetic steps — to show a behavior’s “poetry atoms”.

The title, like the entire work, is written using deliberately archaic spellings, in order to suggest a connection to medieval literature… The Shepheardes Calender

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Une Dentelle S’abolit (Mallarmé)

Tell que vers quelque fenetre
Selon nul ventre que le sien,
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The French here is too hard for me, yet perhaps I get more from struggling with it than I would from a translation. This interpretive essay, from 1973, is very helpful.

Ikuru… was struck on this watching by how the ending wake-scene paralleled the opening office-scene with respect to a certain elaborateness in the presentation of clutter– in both cases Watanabe presiding, as it were, over those gathered, and in both cases a sort of clutter surrounding him — but in the wake-scene the clutter is of flowers, while in the office it is of papers and books — (flowers for papers, etc.) */ Gondola no Uta

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Stendhal, Life of Henri Brulard:

The glacis of the Porte de Bonne was covered with daisies. They were pretty little flowers, and I was picking a bunch of them. This meadow, as it was in 1786, is no doubt nowadays in the middle of the town, to the south of the collegiate church.

Wikipedia:

in military engineering is an artificial slope of earth used in late European fortresses so constructed as to keep any potential assailant under the fire of the defenders until the last possible moment.

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Bus: “The modern English noun is nothing but a Latin dative plural ending.” (omnibus)

“reins rather than oars” Pindar, Pythia 4 17-18:

ἀντὶ δελφίνων δ᾽ ἐλαχυπτερύγων ἵππους ἀμείψαντες θοάς,
ἁνία τ᾽ ἀντ᾽ ἐρετμῶν δίφρους τε νωμάσοισιν ἀελλόποδας.

Horses: The ‘stale of horses’ [1.4.68-73]; “O happy horse to bear the weight of Anthony”[1.5.26]; “And soberly did mount an arm-gaunt steed,” [1.5.55]; “the ne’er-yet-beaten horse of Parthia/ We have jade out o’ the field.” “The third o’ the world is yours, which with a snaffle/ You may pace* easy, but not such a wife.” [2.2.81-81]; [3.2.27-28]; Eno., “Will Caesar weep?” Agr., “He has a cloud in’s face.” Eno., “He were the worse for that, were he a horse/ So is he, being a man.” [3.2.66]; “The wife of Antony/ Should have an army for an usher, and/ The neighs of horse to tell of her approach/ Long ere she did appear.” [3.6.54-57]; “If we should serve with horse and mares together,/ the horse were merely lost; the mares would bear a soldier and his horse.” [3.7.10-12]; “Our nineteen legions thou shalt hold by land/ And our twelve thousand horse.” [3.7.73-74]; “You keep by land/ the legions and the horse whole, do you not?” [3.7.88-89]; “to casear will I render my legions and my horse.” [3.11.41-42]; “That which is now a horse, even with a thought/ the rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct as water is in water.” [4.14.12-15];

* ‘snaffle’ and ‘pace’, terms used in horsemanship.

Inches: “Well, if you were but an inch of fortune better than I, where would you choose it?” [1.2.61]; “I would I had thy inches! Thou shouldst know/ There were a heart in Egypt.” [1.3.54-55];

Slime: “By the fire/ that quickens Nilus’ slime, I go from hence/ Thy soldier, servant, making peace or war/ As thou affects” [1.3.86-89]; “slimy jaws” of fishes [2.5.16]; “As it ebbs, the seedsman/ Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,/ And shortly comes to harvest.” [2.7.22-24]; “These fig leaves/ have slime upon them.” [5.2.428-429].

“My Good Lord of Fridge Corner”, says The Laver. “Hello Laver,” says Lord Fridge Corner. “Dost thou persist in thy dirty coldness, My Lord?” says the Laver…. The Laver Confronts Lord Fridge Corner