Scalapino, Leslie
Considering how exaggerated music is
Greetings from New Haven, Connecticut. You can see in the photo today that I am writing from my lovely new home office, a slightly cold but light-drenched former sun porch at the front of the apartment. The apartment itself is on the first floor of a five apartment house that faces out on Humphrey St.
You can see in the background that most of my books are in boxes. Since we may be moving again in a year, I decided to keep most of them packed up. In the other room, I have all the books from S-Z on a few shelves, ready and waiting to bring this project to its close.
The end doesn't look as far away as it once did. Just a few long shelves to go and then, just like that, it will be done. I'll have to figure out a new way to keep myself writing blog posts everyday. But that's still a ways off. I think we'll make it to the end of the year.
I am not sure how I acquired this one. My instinct is to say that I got from the Just Buffalo library prior to its sale, but I don't see a stamp on the inside cover. That doesn't mean I didn't get it from there, just that I am once again unsure.
from Considering how exaggerated music is
As Rimbaud said, I thought today sitting in the library
absentmindedly leafing through a book on the habits of birds,
As Rimbaud said, I thought today sitting in the library
absentmindedly leafing through a book on the habits of birds,
isn't the way we find happiness precisely by losing our senses
(oversimplified, of course. I was being facetious.) But still
I can see imitating a bird's call such as that of the fledgling
of a goose or a swan (here I referred to the book) by forcing
myself into a swoon. And, by way of finishing the thought, I,
for sake of appearances, since there were people sitting
in the chairs around me, merely sagged forward in my seat and
whistled as if I were asleep. Ssss, it came out, sort of a hiss,
like the noise of a goose. So, almost before I knew it,
I followed this by a low and guttural cough
and leaned forward simply to expel some phlegm. Then quickly
I took a glance around before I wiped my mouth. Feeling weary.
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