Saltimbanque (Rilke, Picasso, Mallarme, Baudelaire)

[alice wellintown]

In Brasil, we use this word, "Saltimbancos" to mock a person or group
who act like circus performers or sometimes look the part. In any
event, after thinking about the gnostic references, and the study of
Rilke in GR, I go to thinking that P was into the acrobat stuff even
as early as V. and that perhaps, it is not merely Rilke that he lifts
from.


http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/picbro.htm

The skin and the fear of skin (the whiteness of the whale & Co.) has
been much discussed in the P-lit, and here it's falling off from the
sun's power seems worth a turn.