Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Some Tasty Bits.

So here are some snippets and bits that I have come across over the last few days in my vast and extensive (and entirely assigned by my professors) reading . . .

From T.S. Elliot –

A “Sweeny” is a vulgar person.

If you’re ever in Brighton and looking for a good time, the Hotel Metropole is known to be a good place for a sexual rendezvous.

And these bitchin’ lines:
“… when the human engine waits/Like a taxi throbbing waiting,”

“And a clatter and a chatter from within”

From Emily Dickinson –

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes”

“This is the hour of lead”

From Sandra Cisneros –

“(The house is) small and red with tight steps in front and windows so small you’d think they were holding their breath.”

From Robert Creeley –

“I think I grow tensions/like flowers/in a wood where/nobody goes”

From Tristan Tzara (who was a bat-shit insane Dadaist.) –

“… lamentation slows down progress.”

“I don’t want to put fences round what people call principles, when what is at stake is freedom.”

“The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.”

From the super-cool television program Psych -
“That is an anti-tank weapon and you are pointing it … at yourself.”

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2 comments:

Megan said...

Do you have to read Pound? No, surely not. Because if you did, you'd have shot yourself in the face by now. Or maybe that's just me.

alittleposy said...

Thank you for this. Brighton is place that gets mentioned in Jane Austen from time to time, but she never mentions where you can find a good place for a sexual rendezvous.