MDMD(4): Taurean

Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Wed Jul 23 13:29:13 CDT 1997


At 10:18 AM 7/23/97, David Casseres wrote:
>>138.  "-- our Passion of Titanick Scope, our Fate, ever to
>>be prick'd at by small men in spangl'd Costumes."
>[...]spangles are stars and a toreador's "suit of lights"
>is a miniature of the Heavens, made to sparkle artificially in the hot
>sunlight; a counterfeit microcosm.
>[...]
>Titanick?
>

As bulls often (sometimes not) meet death in the ring at the hands of the
matador, the doomed ship on a rendezvous with death, at Whose hands?


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