I will cut out from you the righteous and the wicked.
Internal complexity and external diversity in structures are the result of
simple and common units combining and arranging themselves in differing
patterns.
That which dazzles the eye initially and is received as unprecendented is
later percieved through examination of its parts to be a complex but still
entirely comprehensible system.
Ezra Pound
The tea-rose, tea-gown, etc.
Supplants the mousseline of Cos,
The pianola “replaces”
Sappho’s barbitos.
Christ follows Dionysus,
Phallic and ambrosial
Made way for macerations;
Caliban casts out Ariel.
January 12, 2011
That which seeks out the exotic redresses the uneven distribution of a
cultural motif.