5.26.2006

Finished Winesburg, Ohio. I love that book.

Still reading Eleanor Cook's great book on Wallace Stevens (Wallace Stevens : Poetry, Word-Play and Word-War). On "The Man with the Blue Guitar", she quotes the final canto:

XXXIII


That generation's dream, aviled
In the mud, in Monday's dirty light,


That's it, the only dream they knew,
Time in its final block, not time


To come, a wrangling of two dreams.
Here is the bread of time to come,


Here is its actual stone. The bread
Will be our bread, the stone will be


Our bed and we shall sleep by night.
We shall forget by day, except


The moments when we choose to play
The imagined pine, the imagined jay.

"The imagined jay" - jumped out at me. I've been imagining J-jay in many a way, for a while.

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