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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Note to Readers of the eBook Edition
I. I dedicate this book to Keats (Is it you who told me Keats was a Doctor?) On Grounds that a dedication has to be flawed if a book is to remain free and for his general surrender to beauty
II. But a dedication is only felicitous if performed before witnesses—It is an essentially public surrender like that of Standards of Battle
III. And finally a good dedication is indirect (Overheard, Etc.) as if Verdi’s “La Donna È Mobile” had been a poem scratched on glass
IV. He She We They You You You I Her so pronouns begin the dance called Washing Whose Name Derives from an alchemical fact that after a small stillness there is a small stir after great stillness a great stir
V. Here is my propaganda one one one one oneing on your forehead like droplets of luminous sin
VI. To Clean Your Hooves Here is a dance in honor of the Grape which throughout history has been a symbol of revelry and joy not to say analogy for the bride as uncut blossom
VII. But to honor truth which is smooth divine and lives among the Gods we must (With Plato) dance lying which lives down below amid the mass of men both tragic and rough
VIII. It was just night laundry snapping its vowels on the line when mother said What’S that sound
IX. But what word was it
X. Dance of the Western Union envelope how the heart leaps up more eager than plant or beast
XI. Make your cuts in accordance with the living joints of the form said Socrates to Phaedrus when they were dissecting a speech about love
XII. Here’s our clean business now let’s go down the hall to the black room where i make my real money
XIII. It is a monoprint by Degas showing a woman’s head from the back called The Jet Earring
XIV. Running your hand over it to calculate its dimensions you think at first it is stone then ink or black water where the hand sinks in then a bowl of elsewhere from which you pull out no hand
XV. Antilogic is the dance of the dog in Hell happy to eat any food that grows but do they not say the same of a dog in heaven
XVI. Detail as a reticent event
XVII. Sometimes above the gross and palpable things of this diurnal sphere wrote Keats (Not a doctor but he danced as an apothecary) who also recommended strengthening the intellect by making up one’s mind about nothing
XVIII. Do you see it as a room or a sponge or a careless sleeve wiping out half the blackboard by mistake or a burgundy mark stamped on the bottles of our minds what is the nature of the dance called memory
XIX. A conversation between equals than which nothing is more difficult to achieve in this world habeas corpus’d as (Keats says) We are out of all wonder curiosity and fear
XX. So the hall door shuts again and all the noise is gone
XXI. Do you ever dream poor court-bankrupt outwitted and lost of terrible little holes all over everything what do those dreams mean?
XXII. Homo Ludens
XXIII. How rich a poor pleasure to a poor man
XXIV. And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea i shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud
XXV. Sad severe Tango Dance of Love and Death Dance of Night and Men Dance of the Dark Kitchen of the Poverty of Desire
XXVI. Provided in a spirit of unashamed disclosure or as keats might say stitching their throats to the leaves something to make time pass
XXVII. Husband: I am
XXVIII. Some call it love Read the newspaper clipping performing to cite (Last Time) Keats An Awkward Bow
XXIX. Impure as i am (foodstains and shame and all) so too my conclusions which at the door scent you and hesitate
Husband: Final field exercise cut out the three rectangles and rearrange them so that the two commanders are riding the two horses
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