Mark, Thanks for the references. I'm glad someone's got a better memory than me... > poetry. Somewhere I recall Juenger mentioning Rimbaud's vita, i.e. his > choice of a "stable income" in the last years of his life over the > life a poet but I'm not sure where(maybe in "Autor und Hm, don't know if trying to join up in various mercenary forces and gun running in Abyssinnia counts as having a "stable income". If anything, I would attribute part of Juenger's early enthusiasm for Rimbaud to precisely this adventurous life. As well of course to the fact that Rimbaud was nothing short of a lyric genius. Maybe he was also attracted by his notion that the poet should be a 'voyant', penetrating to the 'inconnu'. Don't know what Juenger made of Rimbaud's famous dictum that "Je est un autre"... John ============================================================================== John King St. John's College GB - Oxford OX1 3JP ==============================================================================
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