The Cantos

[luka]

Wu-Tang Clan (Ft. Popa Wu & Uncle Pete) – Wu-Revolution

This songs kicks off the classic album Wu Tang Forever, though it doesn’t actually have any of the official Wu Tang Clan members featured on it

genius.com

 

[luka]

see if you can find an image of this ideogram he's got printed here. apparently hsien. He might have drawn it wrong I guess. Apparently means clarity/radiance. This is Pound's tensile light whose tensility derives from the lower left elements for 'silk', The light of course comes from the sun (upper left)

 

[Benny Bunter]

"putrid gold standard" - you can imagine him dramatically clamping a peg on his nose as he says it

 

[luka]

it's comprised of multiple elements like so

 

[Benny Bunter]

I took a photo of it but dissensus says the files too big to upload

 

[Benny Bunter]

This is the best I can do

 

[Benny Bunter]

it's comprised of multiple elements like so
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You'll have already seen this I suppose, about 8 mins in

 

[luka]

i havent

 

[Benny Bunter]

I watched it the other day, it might even be the exact same ideogram that he demonstrates, is it? I can't watch it right now to check.

 

[luka]

I watched it the other day, it might even be the exact same ideogram that he demonstrates, is it? I can't watch it right now to check.

are you in the bar glugging sherry and scarfing octopus and olives?

 

[luka]

dutifully throwing back handfuls of dried broad beans wishing they were prawn cocktail crisps

 

[luka]

smoking indoors like a good European. making eyes at the flamenco dancer

 

[luka]

Pound on the table and notes everywhere

 

[luka]

the local street urchins call you El Gringo

 

[Benny Bunter]

are you in the bar glugging sherry and scarfing octopus and olives?

I'm in a bar where I could order octupus and olives if I wanted but I've just got a cervecita for now. Getting hungry though!

 

[Benny Bunter]

I do get some funny looks in the barrio from time to time but they all know me by now

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's quite funny that bit in the video when the narrator says something like "most Chinese scholars disagree with Pound's theories but he doesn't care" just as he reclines pretentiously on the couch with his book 😅

 

[Benny Bunter]

dutifully throwing back handfuls of dried broad beans wishing they were prawn cocktail crisps

Lol, the are known locally as 'chochitos' (little pussies) and they are indeed rubbish. I do miss British crisps, it's true.

 

[luka]

they're appalling. it's hilarious how huge the market for posh dinner party snacks is in this country. £3 for a packet of those rubbish dried beans or some sort of appalling rusk to bring as an offering to your host. there's whole shops dedicated to these items. foreign muck if you ask me.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Actually the chochitos are 'pickled' (in reality just swimming in salty water) lupin beans, not dried broad beans. Still shite though. But the Spanish do have a good range of salty snacks in the bars though if you eat meat and fish.