Tuesday, April 6, 2010

On This Day: Blasts from the Past from The Bulbs Old Dimensions

resist trix
relics and some man Westmore Harvard 1939
it was the middle of the start of the war and he said:

"This charm offers considerable difficulty. The first part describes an angel all-radiant {...} sent from on high, a being fair of face from his glorious home//land of hope and glory//the plains and the high mountains, the salt waves and shakers,{...} Whales praise thee, the dread evil creature, (be wary the craters and the cratures with their raptures of vertigo) flashing with surges of flame, to seek out his foes, the hated men. The king was mindful of flame."

- from Translations of the Anglo-Saxon by RK Gordon and DG Toms - Everyman Editions 1926

Personally, I'm still wondering where the fuck F. Scott Fitzgerald was? Whitman? What - man?

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Rates of Alcoholism among the American Irish, both first and second-generation, were also demonstrably higher than for all other Americans in the early twentieth century. One study of the admission to the Worcester, Mass. State Hospital in 1900 discovered the following percentages of alcoholic cases among the total male admissions //admit nothing// for each ethnic(k) group (sic): Oirish 37; German, English, Scotch//on the rocks// 20-25; Mass.-born 14; and Jewish, 5. Charles Basin was born in 18-? Charles Basin died.Charles Basin never married. Charles Basin is assaulted Daily by the demands Of the BAA Marathon. Charles Basin should arrest this action.Charles Basin has no intention of enrolling in MIT. Charles Basin will go to Harvard. It will be easier for him there...I want to sleep on the couch in Douglas Hall* , but they won’t let me...I’ve had enough of Cambridge. I think I’m drunk on the New England air ...Take me back to Boylston...I need a beer...

*No reference can be found to a Douglas Hall in Harvard. This is likely to be Dudley House, the centre for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard (Shane M. Forde)

- from Kevin Kenny, The American Irish: A History (corrupt translation) Longman Press 2000

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