Heikki's bridges

Andrew Dinn andrew at cee.hw.ac.uk
Thu Apr 25 09:53:27 CDT 1996


meikle at mail.utexas.edu writes:

> Heikki writes about Charles Olson's interpretation of Melville, and about
> the American obsession with bridging space, with fulfilling a trajectory
> over the land.

...

>  Heikki's "guys like Slothrop who are under the bridge"

Hey, now maybe we are onto something. Doesn't that Wanda Kasczinsky
picture portray her as living under a bridge? And one of her letters
too, I seem to recall.


Andrew Dinn
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And though Earthliness forget you,
To the stilled Earth say:  I flow.
To the rushing water speak:  I am.





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