LPPM MMV "Mon Semblable, Mon Frere"

Dave Monroe monropolitan at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 14 16:05:06 CDT 2004


"'Good grief,' Siegel said, cowering a little.  'Mon
semblable,' Lupescu said, 'mon frere.'  He gazed at
Siegel.  'A sign,' he said, 'a sign, and deliverance.'
 Siegel could smell alcohol fumes on Lupescu's breath.
 "I beg your pardon.'" (MMV, p. 3)


"Good grief"

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/meet_charlie_brown.html


"Mon semblable, mon frere"

Au Lecteur

[...]

C'est l'Ennui!—l'oeil chargé d'un pleur involontaire,
Il rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka.
Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat,
—Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/039250.html

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal (1857, 1861)

http://www.fleursdumal.org/

http://www.ac-strasbourg.fr/pedago/lettres/Fleurs/

http://un2sg4.unige.ch/athena/baudelaire/baud_flm.html

French - From preface to Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal 
hypocrite lecteur!--mon semblable,--mon frère! 
hypocrite reader!--my double,--my brother!

Unreal City, 
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,   
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,   
I had not thought death had undone so many.   
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled,   
And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. 
Flowed up the hill and down King William Street,   
To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours   
With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.   
There I saw one I knew, and stopped him,
   crying 'Stetson!   
'You who were with me in the ships at Mylae! 
'That corpse you planted last year in your garden,   
'Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?   
'Or has the sudden frost disturbed its bed?   
'Oh keep the Dog far hence, that's friend to men,   
'Or with his nails he'll dig it up again! 
'You! hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère!' 

T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land," 60-76 (1922)

http://world.std.com/~raparker/exploring/thewasteland/table/explore5.html

And see as well, e.g., ...

http://members1.chello.nl/~a.vanarum8/EliotProject/Waste_notes/Waste_A.htm

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html


		
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