Re: Christmas on Earth

From: Fred Davidson (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Mar 29 2009 - 08:38:40 PDT


      No it wasn't mentioned here but it was mentioned in the article
I read by Daniel Belasco. It would be nice to know who came up with
that title. Did she? Did she lift that from Rimbaud's "Morning" or did
someone lift it for her?

On Mar 29, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Jeanne LIOTTA wrote:

> not sure if this was already mentioned , but the title's from Rimbaud:
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> Morning
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> Hadn't I once a youth that was lovely, heroic, fabulous, something
> to write down on pages of gold? - I was too lucky! Through what
> crime, by what fault did I deserve my present weakness? You who
> imagine that animals sob with sorrow, that the sick despair, that
> the dead have bad dreams, try now to relate my fall and my sleep. I
> can explain myself no better than the beggar with his endless Aves
> and Pater Nosters. I no longer know how to talk!
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> And yet, today, I think I have finished this account of my Hell. And
> it was Hell; the old one, whose gates were opened by the Son of Man.
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> From the same desert, toward the same dark sky, my tired eyes
> forever open on the silver star, forever; but the three wise men
> never stir, the Kings of life, the heart, the soul, the mind. When
> will we go, over mountains and shores, to hail the birth of new
> labor, new wisdom, the flight of tyrants and demons, the end of
> superstition, - to be the first to adore! - Christmas on earth!
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> The song of the heavens, the marching of nations! We are slaves, let
> us not curse life!
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> ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ
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> - As translated by Paul Schmidt
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