Bauiller
was an open air dance place now gone.
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
After 6 months in jail he went on a hunger strike.
The guards put a roast chicken in his cell every day, but Bunting held out and after 11 days they let him go [B.
B.
: Man and
Poet, 29].
154. "Red . . . Met . . . ":
147. femina . . . : L, "woman. "
148. hamadryas: nymph. "
L, hamadryad,
"tree
for
Ferdinand G. ,
? ? ? 372
74/432-433
74/433-434
373
162. Elson: A missionary Pound visited in Gibraltar in 1906 and 1908. Pound wrote to Horner Pound: "Elson is about the most livest thing in Tangiers. Had a bully good gallop over hills to his home-next to the Perdicari's place which we inspected"
[unpub. letter in Yale collection].
163. villa of Perdicaris: Perdicaris's house was situated on a hill on the road running from Tangiers to Cape Sparte! . After he was kidnapped, the villa "never saw its master again; the fine view out to sea, the delightful gardens, the comfortable house, remained deserted" [Fang, II, 49] .
164. color diluce: I, "color of light. "
165. Fordie: Ford Madox [Hueffer] Ford, 1873? 1939, the English novelist, critic, poet, and editor. "Riesenberg," a brief prose piece he wrote, concerns two giants who lie helplessly bound in a valley of the Upper Silesian mountains.
166. William: W. Butler Yeats. His whole work, early and late, is so filled with dreams that assigning a specific source can only be idle speculation.
167. Jim the comedian: James Joyce,
171. Newbolt: Sir Henry 1938, the English poet.
John N. ,
1862?
179. Voisin's: A restaurant in Paris at 261, rue St. Honore and 16, rue Cambon. Re- corded in Baedeker as a restaurant of "the highest class" [Fang, II, 309].
180. Uncle George: George Holden Tink? ham, 1870? 1956, member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1915? 43); a conservative and isolationist whom Pound knew in Venice.
,
181. PEl IIANTA: H, "all things flow. " Inversion of Heraclitus nCt. vrCi. peL Seems to imply that while everyone else flowed on the path of least resistance, Uncle George stood firm as a rock.
182: fllls up . . . : When asked what Kung found in water to praise, Mencius said: "There is a spring of water; how it gushes out! . . . It fills up every hole, and then advances, flowing up to the four seas"
[83/530; CON 217].
183. Nevsky: The Nevsky Prospekt is the major avenue of st. Petersburg, similar to the Champs? Elysees in Paris.
184. SchOners: The SchOner Restaurant at 19 Siebensterngasse, Vienna. Prob. the place where Pound encountered Antheil and his wife in 1928 [cf. Antheil,BadBoy o fMusic,
215; Fang, II, 313].
185. der Greif at Bolsano: A hotel with a restaurant at 9 Walterplatz, Bolzano, in the Tyrol, Italy.
186. Mouquin's: A famous French restau- rant in New York, ca. 1900, which was closed in 1925. Pound, in Letters and other writings, associates it with W. C. Williams. See "Dr. William's Position" [Dial, 1928, reprinted, PE, 70] : "All of which belongs to an American yesterday and is as gone as les caves de Mouquin" [Fang, II, 321].
187. Robert's: A restaurant at 33 West 55th St. In 1939 Pound visited it with E. E. Cummings.
188. La Marquise de Pierre: A friend of Remy de Gourmont who became a friend of Pound [RO].
189. Huddy: William Henry Hudson, 1841? 1922. Born in Argentina of American parents, he came to England in 1870. Ford wrote of Hudson: "An immensely long form would be leaning in the doorway that separated the upper rooms of the Mont Blanc. . . . After a pause of almost breath? lessness we would all ofus exclaim 'Hud . . . son' . . . all except' Mr. Edward Garnett, who, as his discoverer, permitted himself to say 'Huddie! '" [Mightier than the Sword, 60]. Hudson was a naturalist and novelist.
Pound acclaimed his Green Mansions.
190. ou sont les heurs: OF, "where are the good times" [variation of Villon: "Oli sont les neiges d'antan. "].
191. Mr. James: Henry 1. , 1843? 1916, the American novelist.
192. Mrs. Hawkesby: Henry James's house? keeper at Rye.
193. Mr. Adams: Henry Brooks A. , 1838? 1918, son of Charles Francis Adams; Ameri? can historian, taught medieval history at
Harvard (1870? 77); author of The Education ofHenry Adams, which contains the seed of this anecdote [Chap. XIX, "Chaos"]. Pound got the story from Santayana [L, 338] .
194. the monument: Santayana [RO] .
195. Haec sunt fastae: L, haec sun! fasti (? ): "these are the festivals (? ). "
196. quatorze Juillet: F, "14 July" (Bastille Day, 1945).
197. Amber Rives: Amelie Rives, 1864? 1945, Time, June 25, 1945, obit. : "Died . . . Amelie Rives . . . 81, who . . . scandalized readers. . . with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead. . . . " Pound played tennis with her in London at the South Lodge horne of Ford Madox Ford [Fang, 11, 99? 100; MSB note reads: 2nd rate British novelist].
Cunninghame G. , 1852? 1936, Scottish essayist, biographer, and? world traveler, noted for his journey by horse through South America. Honored in
1882? 1941, the Irish novelist, who times clowned around as a singer.
some?
172. Kokka: Colonel Goleyevsky, military attache to Beckendorff, tsarist ambassador to the court of St. James and, ca. 1913, to Baron Stalevesky, tsarist ambassador to Washington. An acquaintance of the Pounds during their Paris years. Referred to anony~ mously in GK, 34, 81? 83, 229: "[Kokka] . . . remarked that if you are covered with brass chains, a sword, etc,; if your sartorial sheath is rigid and every time you move something jangles you naturally do not loll, you sit still and upright" [po 83] .
173. old Marchesa: Pound wrote of her: "Countess M. (an Italian title) counted her high water mark a wedding at the court in St. Petersburg" [GK, 83] .
174. Spain: When asked if any "good society" remained, Kokka "meditated and finally thought there was some left in Spain. " When asked, "'Is it a society in which you wd. care to spend much of your time? '" the general said, "'Good GOD, No! ! '" [ibid. ].
175. Sirdar: A restaurant on the Champs? Elysees in Paris.
176. Bouiller: The Bal Bullier, a dance hall on the boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris. Now demolished but in the 20s noted as a resort of students and frequented occasionally by some of the staff of Ford's Transatlantic Review [MSB note: "Respectable landmarks in Paris.
Bauiller was an open air dance place now gone. "] .
177. Les Lilas: Closerie des Lilas, restaurant in Paris, at the corner of Boulevard Saint- Michel and Boulevard Montparnasse, facing the Bal Bullier.
178. Dieudonne London: A restaurant in London named for the famous chef, Dieu- donet. Located at 11 Ryder Street, St. James. First number of Blast was celebrated there on July 15, 1914. There also (2 days later) Amy Lowell gave an Imagiste dinner which Richard Aldington called her "Boston Tea Party for Ezra" [Fang, II, 301].
168. Plarr: Victor Gustave P. , 1863? 1929, librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, author of In the Dorian Mood (1896) and other works. His father, Gustave, was a mathematician.
169. Jepson: Edgar J. , 1863? 1938, English novelist. Iris Barrie wrote in The Bookman, Oct. 1931: "Pound and his close friend Edmond Dulac . . . were both passionately fond of jade, and Jepson collected it. He used to pass pieces of it about the table: Pound would finger each piece long and lovingly" [Fang, II, 116].
170. Maurie: Maurice Henry Hewlett, 1861? 1923, English essayist, novelist, and poet. Author of The Queen's Quair, based on the life of Mary Queen of Scots [80/ 515].
198. Mr. Graham:
R. B.
\
? ? ? ? ? 374
74/434-435
74/435-436
375
Blast, I. Sir John Lavery did a portrait of Graham on horseback, his left ear and black beard accented. A picture in the Time mentioned above prob. reminded Pound of Graham's portrait. In a letter to Harriet Monroe about what artists, poets, and sculptors did at the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Pound wrote: "Cunninghame Graham volunteered, after having lived a pacific socialist. He is to be sent off to buy re- mounts, as he is overage and knows more about horses than anyone else except Blunt"
[L, 46; MSB note: Mr. Graham. Heir to Scottish throne; would not claim the title; getting himself photographed] .
I. G. Farben Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft) works, German chemical and dye cartel, officially organized as a monopoly in 1925 at Frankfurt-on-Main. The same issue of Time [p. 21] reports: "the great I. G. Farben plant in Leverkusen has already asked the military government for permission to make a long list of chemi- cals out of raw material on hand. . . . Ger- many the practitioner of total war, most
certainly did not suffer total defeat" [MSB note: The fine things have been destroyed; Farben survived] .
200. Lilibullero: Lillibullero, a song mock- ing the Irish Catholics, popular in England during the revolution of 1688. It was used as a signature theme by the BBC during WWII and was sung by both British and American soldiers [Hunting, Pai, 6-2, 179].
201. Adelphi: Old hotel on the Strand [62:112] which was damaged ['] during the war [MSB note: One of the last bits of decent architecture. Comes in Adams'
canto]
202. Mr. Edwards: Henry Hudson E. , black soldier who made out of a packing box a table Pound could write on. DTC rules did not allow Pound to speak or to be spoken to by other prisoners. But many soldiers had the "charity" and found the means to ignore the rule.
203. Baluba: Pound's name for tribe in SW Belgian Congo [38:41; MSB note: hooking up with Frobenius].
204. nient' altro: I, "nothing else. "
205. XIX Leviticus: "Ye shall do no un- righteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure" [19. 35].
206. First Thessalonians: The verse cited says: "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own bUSiness, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you"
[4. 11].
207. Dioce: [cf. 8 above].
208. Terracina: Seaport on the west coast of Italy [39:39]. The several lines evoke (I) the birth of Aphrodite from the sea foam, and (2) the restoration of the goddess to her pedestal there, a lifelong wish of Pound
[Surette,Pai,3-2,204].
209. Anchises: Father of Aeneas who was approached by Aphrodite in human disguise. As Virgil put it [Aeneid I, 404-405], he knew her by her walk [23: 31, 34] .
210. wind. . . rain. . . process: [ef. 9 above].
211. Pleiades: A cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus (the seven daughters of Atlas). "Her mirror" is the sky and "she" is the recumbent earth [HK].
212. Kuanon: [cf. 81 above].
213. this stone: The spiritual peace evoked by the stone statue of Kuanon is similar to the peace evoked by the sapphires of Dante and Prester John [cf. 37 above; 76:145].
214. xe6vic< . . . : H, "Nether earth, Mother. " 215 herbs . . . : Hieratic herbs associated
with paradisal vision [CFT,Pai, 3-1, 93-94]. 216. katydid: Large green insect of grass-
hopper family which Pound? prob. saw near his tent; unable to fly because it was minus its right wing.
217. T1ElnNnI: H, Tithonus. In the myth
T. was given immortality without freedom from process of aging. He pleaded for death but could not die. He was loved by the goddess Eos, who turned him into a grass? hopper, the most musical of insects, so that she might hear her lover's voice sounding forever in her ears.
230. this stone: [cf. 213 above].
231. staria . . . scosse: I, "it would rest without further tossing. " Guido da Monte? feltro says these words [Int. XXVII, 63] about respite from the tossing flames that encase him in the hell of evil counsellors [cf. epigraph to Eliot's "Prufrock"; MSB note: Dante, and the Possum: if I thought I was talking to anyone returning to the world, flame would not keep speaking] .
232. eucalyptus: On the way to Lavagna, Pound picked up a eucalpytus pip and kept it with him thereafter [M de R; 80:9].
233. mare Tirreno: I, "the Tyrrhenian Sea. "
234. MaImaison: A chateau near Paris; residence (1809-1814) of the Empress Josephine, and later of Maria Christina of Spain and o f the Empress Eugenie.
235. Sirdar: [cf. 175 above].
236. Armenonville: Pavillon d'Armenon- ville, fashionable restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris: "between the Porte Maillot and the Jardin d'Acclimatation" [Fang, II, 309].
237. Ventadour: Town near Egletons, SW o f Ussel. A ruined castle o f a famous ducal family is located there [cf. 72, 73 above].
238. Vssel: [cf. 72 above].
239. la bella Torre: I, "the beautiful tower. " The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
240. Vgolino: Vgolino della Gheradesca, 11212-1289, Vgolino da Pisa. He conspired to seize power in Pisa but was imprisoned and his wealth confiscated (1276). After other treasons against Pisa, he, his two sons, and two grandsons were imprisoned in the tower of Gualandi (since called Torre Della Fame) and starved to death [Int. XXXIII]. Dante [Int. XXXII] pictures V. eating his son's head.
241. H. : Adolf Hitler. 242. M. : Benito Mussolini.
199. Farben works:
The
(Interessensgemeinscha/t
218. in coitu . . .
shines. " The "lumen," or divine light, is expressed sexually [36:13].
: L, "in
coition the
light
219. Manet: Edouard M. ,
French impressionist painter. He painted a picture of the bar at the Folies-Bergere, 32, rue Richter.
220. La Cigale: A dance hall and restaurant near Place Pigalle, Montmartre, at 120, boulevard de Rochechouart.
221. Les Folies: F, "The Folies" (Bergere).
222. she did her hair . . . : Olga Rudge, who for a time dyed her hair red in honor of Vivaldi, who was known in his time as the Red Priest because of his flaming hair.
223. Drecol or Lanvin: Famous Parisian dress designers.
224. Aeneas: When he first met his mother (Aphrodite) in The Aeneid, he knew her at once.
225. la France . . . : F, "Nineteenth-century France.
Poet, 29].
154. "Red . . . Met . . . ":
147. femina . . . : L, "woman. "
148. hamadryas: nymph. "
L, hamadryad,
"tree
for
Ferdinand G. ,
? ? ? 372
74/432-433
74/433-434
373
162. Elson: A missionary Pound visited in Gibraltar in 1906 and 1908. Pound wrote to Horner Pound: "Elson is about the most livest thing in Tangiers. Had a bully good gallop over hills to his home-next to the Perdicari's place which we inspected"
[unpub. letter in Yale collection].
163. villa of Perdicaris: Perdicaris's house was situated on a hill on the road running from Tangiers to Cape Sparte! . After he was kidnapped, the villa "never saw its master again; the fine view out to sea, the delightful gardens, the comfortable house, remained deserted" [Fang, II, 49] .
164. color diluce: I, "color of light. "
165. Fordie: Ford Madox [Hueffer] Ford, 1873? 1939, the English novelist, critic, poet, and editor. "Riesenberg," a brief prose piece he wrote, concerns two giants who lie helplessly bound in a valley of the Upper Silesian mountains.
166. William: W. Butler Yeats. His whole work, early and late, is so filled with dreams that assigning a specific source can only be idle speculation.
167. Jim the comedian: James Joyce,
171. Newbolt: Sir Henry 1938, the English poet.
John N. ,
1862?
179. Voisin's: A restaurant in Paris at 261, rue St. Honore and 16, rue Cambon. Re- corded in Baedeker as a restaurant of "the highest class" [Fang, II, 309].
180. Uncle George: George Holden Tink? ham, 1870? 1956, member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1915? 43); a conservative and isolationist whom Pound knew in Venice.
,
181. PEl IIANTA: H, "all things flow. " Inversion of Heraclitus nCt. vrCi. peL Seems to imply that while everyone else flowed on the path of least resistance, Uncle George stood firm as a rock.
182: fllls up . . . : When asked what Kung found in water to praise, Mencius said: "There is a spring of water; how it gushes out! . . . It fills up every hole, and then advances, flowing up to the four seas"
[83/530; CON 217].
183. Nevsky: The Nevsky Prospekt is the major avenue of st. Petersburg, similar to the Champs? Elysees in Paris.
184. SchOners: The SchOner Restaurant at 19 Siebensterngasse, Vienna. Prob. the place where Pound encountered Antheil and his wife in 1928 [cf. Antheil,BadBoy o fMusic,
215; Fang, II, 313].
185. der Greif at Bolsano: A hotel with a restaurant at 9 Walterplatz, Bolzano, in the Tyrol, Italy.
186. Mouquin's: A famous French restau- rant in New York, ca. 1900, which was closed in 1925. Pound, in Letters and other writings, associates it with W. C. Williams. See "Dr. William's Position" [Dial, 1928, reprinted, PE, 70] : "All of which belongs to an American yesterday and is as gone as les caves de Mouquin" [Fang, II, 321].
187. Robert's: A restaurant at 33 West 55th St. In 1939 Pound visited it with E. E. Cummings.
188. La Marquise de Pierre: A friend of Remy de Gourmont who became a friend of Pound [RO].
189. Huddy: William Henry Hudson, 1841? 1922. Born in Argentina of American parents, he came to England in 1870. Ford wrote of Hudson: "An immensely long form would be leaning in the doorway that separated the upper rooms of the Mont Blanc. . . . After a pause of almost breath? lessness we would all ofus exclaim 'Hud . . . son' . . . all except' Mr. Edward Garnett, who, as his discoverer, permitted himself to say 'Huddie! '" [Mightier than the Sword, 60]. Hudson was a naturalist and novelist.
Pound acclaimed his Green Mansions.
190. ou sont les heurs: OF, "where are the good times" [variation of Villon: "Oli sont les neiges d'antan. "].
191. Mr. James: Henry 1. , 1843? 1916, the American novelist.
192. Mrs. Hawkesby: Henry James's house? keeper at Rye.
193. Mr. Adams: Henry Brooks A. , 1838? 1918, son of Charles Francis Adams; Ameri? can historian, taught medieval history at
Harvard (1870? 77); author of The Education ofHenry Adams, which contains the seed of this anecdote [Chap. XIX, "Chaos"]. Pound got the story from Santayana [L, 338] .
194. the monument: Santayana [RO] .
195. Haec sunt fastae: L, haec sun! fasti (? ): "these are the festivals (? ). "
196. quatorze Juillet: F, "14 July" (Bastille Day, 1945).
197. Amber Rives: Amelie Rives, 1864? 1945, Time, June 25, 1945, obit. : "Died . . . Amelie Rives . . . 81, who . . . scandalized readers. . . with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead. . . . " Pound played tennis with her in London at the South Lodge horne of Ford Madox Ford [Fang, 11, 99? 100; MSB note reads: 2nd rate British novelist].
Cunninghame G. , 1852? 1936, Scottish essayist, biographer, and? world traveler, noted for his journey by horse through South America. Honored in
1882? 1941, the Irish novelist, who times clowned around as a singer.
some?
172. Kokka: Colonel Goleyevsky, military attache to Beckendorff, tsarist ambassador to the court of St. James and, ca. 1913, to Baron Stalevesky, tsarist ambassador to Washington. An acquaintance of the Pounds during their Paris years. Referred to anony~ mously in GK, 34, 81? 83, 229: "[Kokka] . . . remarked that if you are covered with brass chains, a sword, etc,; if your sartorial sheath is rigid and every time you move something jangles you naturally do not loll, you sit still and upright" [po 83] .
173. old Marchesa: Pound wrote of her: "Countess M. (an Italian title) counted her high water mark a wedding at the court in St. Petersburg" [GK, 83] .
174. Spain: When asked if any "good society" remained, Kokka "meditated and finally thought there was some left in Spain. " When asked, "'Is it a society in which you wd. care to spend much of your time? '" the general said, "'Good GOD, No! ! '" [ibid. ].
175. Sirdar: A restaurant on the Champs? Elysees in Paris.
176. Bouiller: The Bal Bullier, a dance hall on the boulevard Saint-Michel, Paris. Now demolished but in the 20s noted as a resort of students and frequented occasionally by some of the staff of Ford's Transatlantic Review [MSB note: "Respectable landmarks in Paris.
Bauiller was an open air dance place now gone. "] .
177. Les Lilas: Closerie des Lilas, restaurant in Paris, at the corner of Boulevard Saint- Michel and Boulevard Montparnasse, facing the Bal Bullier.
178. Dieudonne London: A restaurant in London named for the famous chef, Dieu- donet. Located at 11 Ryder Street, St. James. First number of Blast was celebrated there on July 15, 1914. There also (2 days later) Amy Lowell gave an Imagiste dinner which Richard Aldington called her "Boston Tea Party for Ezra" [Fang, II, 301].
168. Plarr: Victor Gustave P. , 1863? 1929, librarian of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, author of In the Dorian Mood (1896) and other works. His father, Gustave, was a mathematician.
169. Jepson: Edgar J. , 1863? 1938, English novelist. Iris Barrie wrote in The Bookman, Oct. 1931: "Pound and his close friend Edmond Dulac . . . were both passionately fond of jade, and Jepson collected it. He used to pass pieces of it about the table: Pound would finger each piece long and lovingly" [Fang, II, 116].
170. Maurie: Maurice Henry Hewlett, 1861? 1923, English essayist, novelist, and poet. Author of The Queen's Quair, based on the life of Mary Queen of Scots [80/ 515].
198. Mr. Graham:
R. B.
\
? ? ? ? ? 374
74/434-435
74/435-436
375
Blast, I. Sir John Lavery did a portrait of Graham on horseback, his left ear and black beard accented. A picture in the Time mentioned above prob. reminded Pound of Graham's portrait. In a letter to Harriet Monroe about what artists, poets, and sculptors did at the outbreak of WWI in 1914, Pound wrote: "Cunninghame Graham volunteered, after having lived a pacific socialist. He is to be sent off to buy re- mounts, as he is overage and knows more about horses than anyone else except Blunt"
[L, 46; MSB note: Mr. Graham. Heir to Scottish throne; would not claim the title; getting himself photographed] .
I. G. Farben Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft) works, German chemical and dye cartel, officially organized as a monopoly in 1925 at Frankfurt-on-Main. The same issue of Time [p. 21] reports: "the great I. G. Farben plant in Leverkusen has already asked the military government for permission to make a long list of chemi- cals out of raw material on hand. . . . Ger- many the practitioner of total war, most
certainly did not suffer total defeat" [MSB note: The fine things have been destroyed; Farben survived] .
200. Lilibullero: Lillibullero, a song mock- ing the Irish Catholics, popular in England during the revolution of 1688. It was used as a signature theme by the BBC during WWII and was sung by both British and American soldiers [Hunting, Pai, 6-2, 179].
201. Adelphi: Old hotel on the Strand [62:112] which was damaged ['] during the war [MSB note: One of the last bits of decent architecture. Comes in Adams'
canto]
202. Mr. Edwards: Henry Hudson E. , black soldier who made out of a packing box a table Pound could write on. DTC rules did not allow Pound to speak or to be spoken to by other prisoners. But many soldiers had the "charity" and found the means to ignore the rule.
203. Baluba: Pound's name for tribe in SW Belgian Congo [38:41; MSB note: hooking up with Frobenius].
204. nient' altro: I, "nothing else. "
205. XIX Leviticus: "Ye shall do no un- righteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure" [19. 35].
206. First Thessalonians: The verse cited says: "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own bUSiness, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you"
[4. 11].
207. Dioce: [cf. 8 above].
208. Terracina: Seaport on the west coast of Italy [39:39]. The several lines evoke (I) the birth of Aphrodite from the sea foam, and (2) the restoration of the goddess to her pedestal there, a lifelong wish of Pound
[Surette,Pai,3-2,204].
209. Anchises: Father of Aeneas who was approached by Aphrodite in human disguise. As Virgil put it [Aeneid I, 404-405], he knew her by her walk [23: 31, 34] .
210. wind. . . rain. . . process: [ef. 9 above].
211. Pleiades: A cluster of stars in the constellation of Taurus (the seven daughters of Atlas). "Her mirror" is the sky and "she" is the recumbent earth [HK].
212. Kuanon: [cf. 81 above].
213. this stone: The spiritual peace evoked by the stone statue of Kuanon is similar to the peace evoked by the sapphires of Dante and Prester John [cf. 37 above; 76:145].
214. xe6vic< . . . : H, "Nether earth, Mother. " 215 herbs . . . : Hieratic herbs associated
with paradisal vision [CFT,Pai, 3-1, 93-94]. 216. katydid: Large green insect of grass-
hopper family which Pound? prob. saw near his tent; unable to fly because it was minus its right wing.
217. T1ElnNnI: H, Tithonus. In the myth
T. was given immortality without freedom from process of aging. He pleaded for death but could not die. He was loved by the goddess Eos, who turned him into a grass? hopper, the most musical of insects, so that she might hear her lover's voice sounding forever in her ears.
230. this stone: [cf. 213 above].
231. staria . . . scosse: I, "it would rest without further tossing. " Guido da Monte? feltro says these words [Int. XXVII, 63] about respite from the tossing flames that encase him in the hell of evil counsellors [cf. epigraph to Eliot's "Prufrock"; MSB note: Dante, and the Possum: if I thought I was talking to anyone returning to the world, flame would not keep speaking] .
232. eucalyptus: On the way to Lavagna, Pound picked up a eucalpytus pip and kept it with him thereafter [M de R; 80:9].
233. mare Tirreno: I, "the Tyrrhenian Sea. "
234. MaImaison: A chateau near Paris; residence (1809-1814) of the Empress Josephine, and later of Maria Christina of Spain and o f the Empress Eugenie.
235. Sirdar: [cf. 175 above].
236. Armenonville: Pavillon d'Armenon- ville, fashionable restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris: "between the Porte Maillot and the Jardin d'Acclimatation" [Fang, II, 309].
237. Ventadour: Town near Egletons, SW o f Ussel. A ruined castle o f a famous ducal family is located there [cf. 72, 73 above].
238. Vssel: [cf. 72 above].
239. la bella Torre: I, "the beautiful tower. " The Leaning Tower of Pisa.
240. Vgolino: Vgolino della Gheradesca, 11212-1289, Vgolino da Pisa. He conspired to seize power in Pisa but was imprisoned and his wealth confiscated (1276). After other treasons against Pisa, he, his two sons, and two grandsons were imprisoned in the tower of Gualandi (since called Torre Della Fame) and starved to death [Int. XXXIII]. Dante [Int. XXXII] pictures V. eating his son's head.
241. H. : Adolf Hitler. 242. M. : Benito Mussolini.
199. Farben works:
The
(Interessensgemeinscha/t
218. in coitu . . .
shines. " The "lumen," or divine light, is expressed sexually [36:13].
: L, "in
coition the
light
219. Manet: Edouard M. ,
French impressionist painter. He painted a picture of the bar at the Folies-Bergere, 32, rue Richter.
220. La Cigale: A dance hall and restaurant near Place Pigalle, Montmartre, at 120, boulevard de Rochechouart.
221. Les Folies: F, "The Folies" (Bergere).
222. she did her hair . . . : Olga Rudge, who for a time dyed her hair red in honor of Vivaldi, who was known in his time as the Red Priest because of his flaming hair.
223. Drecol or Lanvin: Famous Parisian dress designers.
224. Aeneas: When he first met his mother (Aphrodite) in The Aeneid, he knew her at once.
225. la France . . . : F, "Nineteenth-century France.
