If We Want A Book To Do

Pound Had Argued - And Eliot Had Helped Him Prove - That A Poem Could Be Sustained By Memorable Moments. Olson Proved That It Could Be Sustained By Unmemorable Ones, Provided That The Texture Of The Accumulated Jottings Avoided The Sound Of Failed Poetry.

When I Was Very Young, One Of My Favourite Books Was Captain's Courageous And I Suppose One Of The Reasons I Loved It, It Was A Life I Knew I Should Have Had, Learning All The Different Bits Of The Ship And Learning To Catch Fish And Rig Sails And To -all The Things That I Never Learned And I Never Learned The Discipline, But I Hungered After It.

Visitors Who Come From The Soviet Union And Tell You How Marvelous It Is To Be Able To Look At Public Buildings Without Advertisements Stuck All Over Them Are Just Telling You That They Can't Decipher The Cyrillic Alphabet.

She [marilyn Monroe] Was Good At Being Inarticulately Abstracted For The Same Reason That Midgets Are Good At Being Short.

My Niece Is - Her Name Is Sasha, Is Currently Learning Russian At Melbourne University And I Look Forward To The Day When I Can Talk To Her About Pushkin.