The 1001 Nights of Iarcus Oralto

We have previously posted extracts from the  Gertrude Stein manuscript discovered by Denis Kodaly. Here is an extract from the beginning of Denis’ own magnum opus, The 1001 Nights of Iarcus Oralto, which  follows the travels of a a pompous Englishman in the strange land of Arrapamatta. Iarcus’ tale starts with a shipwreck from which  he barely escapes. Now read on…  

Things Gert hears

The senses: sight

Yeats and Pound

  

We have let the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.B. Yeats on June 13th go by unmentioned.  Yes, really , 150 years, 1865. In her impressionable youth Gert was a great Yeats fan, and she still thinks he wrote some of the greatest poems in the language, even if he was a rather silly man.  Here are some slightly left-field observations, courtesy of Ezra Pound.

Lin Ch’ing-chao (1084-c.1151)

To the tune ‘Immortals on the river bank’

Simply messing around in books on International Yoga Day

 

The cantankerous reviewer in Private Eye said,

Richard McHugh: Charlie Anderson’s General Theory of Lying

Perelmania

 

Some more definitions from the irrepressible S.J:

Bibliotherapy

Bibliotherapy is a very broad term for the ancient practice of encouraging reading for therapeutic effect.

That tortured soul, the poet

When I look at the lives of the poets, I understand what’s wrong with me. They were willing to make the sacrifices that I’m not willing to make. They were so tortured, so messed up.