luka
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and this from a guide to ezra pounds selected cantos
the periplum. the prisoner recalls,in hundreds of details, the long journey through time, space, art and politics that has ended in the DTC. he calls it a periplum (properly, periplus) a voyage made without a neat Dantean map, in which one takes ones bearings from point to point, "as the wind veers"... The periplum, his own life, looks as if it might end soon, perhaps on the nearby gallows. he wonders too about the periplum of civilization....
the periplum. the prisoner recalls,in hundreds of details, the long journey through time, space, art and politics that has ended in the DTC. he calls it a periplum (properly, periplus) a voyage made without a neat Dantean map, in which one takes ones bearings from point to point, "as the wind veers"... The periplum, his own life, looks as if it might end soon, perhaps on the nearby gallows. he wonders too about the periplum of civilization....