Re: [ejlist] rimbaud

[mark.grzeskowiak@utoronto.ca]

No problem...I didn't know about the gun running, though.  But your right,
Juenger probably did. 

Mark

On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, John King wrote:

> 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
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