Famouns Inversion in Lit. History
Steelhead
sitka at teleport.com
Sun Feb 9 11:02:22 CST 1997
Famous Inversions in Literary History:
"The question is: not to be or to be?"
"Stirring dull roots with spring rain,
mixing memory and desire,
Breeding lilacs out of the deadlands,
The cruellest month is April."
"Beside the white
chickens
glazed with rain
water
a red wheel
barrow
so much depends
upon."
"I think I may well be a Jew.
Like I Jew I began to talk.
To Dachau, a Jew, Belsen, Auschwitz.
An engine, an engine
Chuffing me off like a Jew.
And the language so obscene."
*Introibo ad altare Dei.* He intoned and held the bowl aloft.
The morning air was mild and gently sustained an ungirdled yellow
dressinggown behind him. Bearing a mirror and a razor, which lay crossed on
a bowl of lather, came Buck Mulligan from the stairhead, plump, stately."
"Across the sky a screaming comes."
Steely
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