Shades with a grievance

[cathy ramirez]

Double Crossings: Madness, Sexuality and Imperialism
By Anne McClintock 

http://www.ronsdalepress.com/catalogue/doublecrossings.html

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he expected Mason, but newly arriv'd at Death, to help
him with something...slowly into the room begin to
walk the Black servants, the Indian poor, the Irish
runaways, the Chinese Sailors, the overflow'd from the
mad Hospital, all Unchonsen Philadelphia, -- as if
something outside, beyond the cold wind, has driven
them to this extreme of seeking refuge...while Outside
the V-Note a number of bums stood...what! Bedlam in
America! Britania who dreamt and made incarnate gaps
in Time & Space through images justaposed, and trapped
the archangel of the sould between 2 visual images and
joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash
of consciousness together jumping with sensation of
Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the synatax
and measure of poor human prose and stand before you
speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame,
rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the
rythm of thought in nhis naked and endless head, the
madman bum and angel beat in Time



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