August 10, 2013

I like Auden, but there are these lines... like the couplet where Time “will pardon Paul Claudel / Pardons him for writing well,” when the only words of pardon that Time has for Claudel, or for anyone, are “Paul who?”

Pardons him for minor tertians

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.