delighted with bluepink

TheSecretGoldfish (lime6@rocketmail.com)
Thu, 30 Apr 1998 14:11:16 -0700 (PDT)

3. See Tony Tanner, The Reign of Wonder: Naivety and
Reality in American Literature (New York, 1967), for
a revealing discussion of "wonder" as an essential
element of the Romantic vision in American
literature. Suggested as a means of "beholding" the
universe and its underlying unity of all life,
"wonder" emerges from it's European roots in Rosseau,
Wordsworth, and Coleridge into the American
Transcendental writing of Emerson, Thoreau, and
Bronson Alcott. It is part of the underlying idealism
of Realists Twain and James and of the essential
Romanticism of such moderns as Hemingway, Sherwood
Anderson, Stein, and such contemporaries as Salinger
and Bellow.

Notes and References, pg. 175, Kenneth Patchen, by
Larry R. Smith etc.

"men who, refusing to analyze away existence, sought
instead to behold the universe and its underlying
unity." 
L.R.Smith pg.70, Kenneth Patchen

today at a bookstore (extremely disorganized and
lacking in quality cream filling) when i finally got
around to ordering a copy of "Raise High The Roof
Beam Carpenter's and Seymour:  An Introduction" the
owner says to me:

"you know i saw him once."
"who? Salinger?"
"yeah, in...(thinking)"
"new hampshire?"
"no, in vermont.(voice unintelligable) just across
from   dartmouth. nobody would  admit it was him
though. the   whole town was protective of him." *end
of     unrecorded conversation*

that's kinda nice don't you think?
not him seeing Him but Salinger being protected by a
whole town.

Flowers! My friend, be delighted with what you like,
     but with something.
Be delighted with something. Yesterday for me it was
     watching
sun on stones;  wet stones....

But today what delights me is thinking of bluepink   
                                           flowers!
Not that I've seen any...
Actually there isn't a flower of any kind in the house-
     except in my head.

kenneth patchen

paul.

p.s.
what's a "gean"?
from:
7. A gean floating on bark.

6. You put one here.

p.s.s.
why do the irish substitude placitude beautitude tute
toot! "then" for "than"?

p.s.s.s.
can anyone tell me the name of the author or essay
about the glass of rum that's given to a man before
he's thrown to the firing squad and about how it's
the impurities from the old fermenting vats or
whatever that make the rum better than the rum that
they make in the new superclean stainless steel
titanium alloy plexiglass cubic zerconium fermenting
vats. it's an essay about prison punishment systems
and governments.
thanks.
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