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The following comment was first published in Jonathan Williams’ Jammin the Greek Scene (Jargon 1956). Works by Charles Olson © The Estate of Charles Olson.
NOTA:
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Fluff it. Everything got treated as scalar for the 2500 years immediately preceding. And indeed the Gods
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It will take a little time still before more know how serious we cards are
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The risk now is the opposite of theirs. To be serious at all. Thus the real danger is the corruption of youth by hecticism. The false speed of the mere exercise of terminology. Cant. Anything for the phrase from the stance
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What Brother Jonathan does in hyar is to keep up the velocity at the same time that the things are let be. Ganymedes, or Echo, or that one Io, get back, by vulgarism, their patent vector powers. In his lightness the spoof
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Barbarism, neologism, vulgarism, these London better have her old car out for The soul sd Duns Scotus is on a rubber band runs out the mouth and if you wake a body tee quick
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I’m sure we got askance from utter shyness. They made us shy, the whole thing fronted so. We winced. Now we’s wincin’ back. I mean, we’s shy. Bro Jonathan, he shy He’s got these things where We’s bristletails and earwigs, most even at the feast
O’ R. OLSON
Charles Olson, photo by Jonathan Williams, Black Mountain College, 1953.