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2. crozier's curve: The crook in the staff carried before a Roman Catholic bishop.
3. harl: [herle]: ME, "fibers and filaments. " Here prob. in a tuft, as in the crest of a bird
[51/251].
4. Verkehr: G, "commerce. " An endorse- ment of what others have called "The free enterprise system. "
5. caracole: In riding, a horseman's ceremo- nial half-turn to the left or right.
6. panache: F, "crest," or "plume of a helmet. "
7. Toba Sojo: A Buddhist priest, 1052- 1140, originally named Kakuyu. He became chief of the Enryaku-ji-temple of the Tendai sect and later returned to Toba, after which he got the name Toba Soja. The pictures he painted were called, after him, Toba-e, and this designation later came to include the whole genre of caricature [EF, Epochs, 174- 175].
8. che . . . vent': I, "who appear so on the wind. " Adapted from Dante [In! V, 75], where he speaks to the lovers Paolo and Francesca, "who seem so light on the wind. " A lead-in to the Na-khi ceremony.
9. 2Har-2la-' llii 3k'o: The collective name for the 13 ceremonies performed by the Na-khi to expiate the spirits of suicides. When these ceremonies are not carried out, the spirits of suicides remain headless de- mons, or wind? demons, which draw hail and contagious diseases with them. When a per- son dies, it is of utmost importance that a relative see his last breath. Otherwise, a fowl must be strangled, whose last breath then stands for that of the suicide [Rock, "Cere- mony," 1-156].
which . . . 2bbue (Artemisia) been laid [ibid. , 30].
twigs . . . had
10. nine . . . seven: "A
fates, . . , a girl has seven. " The lines and most of the Na-khi lines in this canto are based on the Romance of 2K'a-2ma'j gyu- 3 mi- 2gkyi, which was used in the "Wind Sway" ceremonies [Rock, Romance, 20n. ] .
II. the black tree . . . : As 2K'a-2ma (the young girl who is going to commit suicide with her lover rather than accept a forced marriage to someone else) approached her hanging tree, "the black crown of the tree waved, [her] heart was faint, the black tree was born dumb" [ibid. , 42].
12. blue . . . turquoise: Before coming to the tree, the young girl thought of throwing herself into the lake, which is "a deep blue"-like her eyes, except they are "tur- quoise" [ibid. , 41].
13. the stag: In the romance, a stag drinks
man has
nine
17. Ideograms:
[M4534], "bright(ness)"; [M4557], "not"; [M2702], "former"; [M5054], "friend. " Pound's grandson Walter glosses the passage thus: "The brightness of the mOon . . . there are no former friends. " MdeR says that "he
22. Artemis: Or Diana. Rhyme with Artemisia.
23. Kuanon: [74:81].
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[M7696] ,
24. Cozzaglio
neers who built a road called the "Garde- sana. " Says EH: "The Occidental Gardesana, one of the most famous highways in Europe, begins in Riva along the western shore of Lake Garda. Its course for great stretches is blasted out of rocks, and more than 50 bridges lead over ravines, waterfalls and cre- vices. The Arc'd rock layers consist of 70 tunnels" [EH, Letzte, 88]. The waves of the lake may recall Canaletto's scenes of Venice.
(Gardesana):
Italian engi-
25. Savoia . . . that: "that" refers to a cavalry attack the Italians made against the Russians [cf. 31 below].
26. Un caso . . . memoria: Pg, "A sad case and worthy of memory" [Camoens, Os Lui- sadas, III, 118; SR, 214-215].
27. Uncle G. : George Holden Tinkham [74:180].
28. Knox
. . .
Lodge: [89/603].
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29. Bettoni: Commander of the cavalry at- tack at Ibukerki.
30. Galliffet: [16:17].
31. (Ibukerki): "The steppes of Isbuschens-
kij in the Ukraine, where on August 24, 1942 the Savoia Cavalleria regiment attacked the Russians. The Italians had 32 dead (offi- cially, 3), 52 wounded (officially,S), and more than a hundred horses wounded or lost. The Russians-according to Italian figures-suffered ISO dead and 500 pri- soners" [EH, Letzte, 90].
32. tracciolino: I, a Pound neologism deriv- ing from tracciare, meaning something like "road-engineer. "
33. Oleari: Italian theater of operations during WWI.
34. Divisione Sforzesca: I, "Special Force Division. "
35. Felix nupsit: L, "a happy marriage. " Allusion to the marriage of Pound's daughter
[M de R, Discretions, 307].
36. Khaty: [93:2]. Boris de R. , who mar- ried Mary, was an Egyptologist much taken with the pharaoh Akthoi (Khaty).
37. Euridices: The dead wife of Orpheus, the singer.
38. Laurel bark . . . : Reference to Dafne [2:26], who, fleeing from Apollo, was
turned into a laurel tree.
39. Endymion: The lover of Artemis (Diana), the moon-goddess, for whom Arte- misia [cf. 21 above] is named.
40. Kalliastragalos: [4: 14; 109:55].
41. Ideogram: Hsin 1 [M2737], "make new" [53:42-43]. Used with "day by day"
[cf. 53 below].
42. go forth by day: The Egyptian Book of
the Dead was known as "The Sayings for Going Forth by Day" [Schmidt, Pai, 8-1,55].
43. Awoi: Character in the Noh play Awoi
110/779-781 No Uye. Her love, corrupted by jealousy,
turns to hate [EP, CNTJ, 113-121; 77:21, 22].
44. La Tour . . . Voisin: Famous restaurants Pound remembers, 3 of which were in Paris and one (Dieudonne) in London [74/433; 76/453].
45. Byzance: Santa Fosca, a church of the 6th century with a Byzantine structure at Torcello [cf. 47 below]. Over its portal is the image of the Virgin Mary, to which Pound refers by the phrase "Thy quiet house. "
46. Galla's Rest: The tomb of Galla Placidia [21:37; 76:86]. Said Pound: "Of religion it will be enough for me to say . . . 'every self, respecting Ravennese is procreated, or at least receives spirit or breath of life, in the
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia' " [SP ,322].
47. Torcello: The sunken city (founded in 639) in the Venetian Lagoon, where two palaces and the cathedral Santa Maria As- sunta (from the 7th century) are preserved. The cathedral has 12th- and 13th-century mosaics on its facade [EH, Letzte, 90].
48. Quos . . . : L, "which I Persephone. " Based on Propertius VI, 26: "Three books will there be at my funeral, / Which I Perse- phone will bring, not a trifling gift. "
49. Ideogram: Chih3 [M939], "stop. " A comment on Analects IX, 20: "Alas, I see him advance, I never see him stop (take a position). " Pound said: "There is no more important technical term in the Confucian philosophy than this Chih3 , the hitching post, position, place one is in, and works from" [CON,232].
SO.
51.
52.
110/781, 111/782
who started work with the Na-khi in 1922 and returned there to make special studies for over 20 years. In the spring of 1943 he tried to ship over 700 manuscripts, all his 20 years' work ready far the printer, back to the States. The ship waS torpedoed by a Japanese submarine and his work went with it to the bottom of the Arabian Sea. Said Rock with monumental restraint, "That I felt the loss keenly I need not waste time to tell" [Rock, "Ceremony," preface]. Dr. Rock returned after WWII to start the work over again (Pai, 3-1, 10I] .
55. Mount Kinabalu: Mountain in North Borneo, now called Sebah.
56. Jesselton: Formerly capital of North Borneo. After independence (1963), it was renamed Kota Kinabalu.
57. Falling . . . tempest: Perhaps a reference to the Dragon Boat Festival and the 5 poi- sons in Taoism: "spider, scorpion, lizard, snake and toad" [Ismail, Agenda, 75]. But perhaps a note of despair for one who set out to write a paradise and discovered all the evidence indicated he should be writing an apocalypse. Perhaps both.
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[74: 153]. [74: 275].
I. Hui: [103:16]
2. Wadsworth: Joseph W. ,?
a relative of Pound on his mother's side, who stole and preserved by hiding in an oak tree the Char- ter of Connecticut [109:27]. On May IS, 1715, at the Town House in Hartford, he was rewarded: "This assembly do, as token of their grateful resentment of such his faith- ful and good service, grant him out of the Colony treasury the sum of twenty shillings"
[WK, Colonial, 42] .
3. au fond: F, "in essence. "
4. Roche-Guyon: Louis Alexandre due de La R-G, 1743-1792. During the revolution- ary events of June 20, 1792, he raised his
voice in defense of the king and had to flee Paris. He was arrested in Forges and died Nov. 14, 1792, as a result of a stone thrown from the crowd as he was being transported through the town of Gisars.
5. Austerlitz: The battle Napoleon won against Alexander I of Russia and Franz II of Austria on Dec. 2, 1805. Pound called this point in N's career "Bonaparte's Maximum" [101:26], because at that time, he could have unified Italy.
6. Mmede Genlis: [103:48].
7. Lannes: Jean L. , 1769-1809, marshal of France who fought under N in Egypt, Italy, and at Austerlitz.
Bunting:
Upward:
fragments: [8: I ] .
Ideogram: Jih4-5, "day" [53:42-43].
53.
Used with "make new" [cf. 41 above].
54. Mr Rock: Dr. Joseph Rock, a research fellow of the Harvard Yenching Institute,
Notes for eXI Glossary
58. Lux enim: L, "Light itself' [55:135; 83:6].
59. The marble form . . . : Evokes the "grove needs its altar" motif [90/607-609].
60. Ideogram: Ching4 [MI138], "rever- ence. " In a note to an Indian friend, Naresh Guha, Pound commented on this character, which names an essential quality of the fully humane Confucian man: "The grass, the sen- tence in root [. . ,. ] the beating on earth (with feet) (or drum) [X] (to evoke) re- spect for the power . . . " [Pai, 3-1, 67-68]. The "beating on earth" implies ritual dance, as in certain Noh plays [88/581; 98/691] and other rituals [104:118]. Parallels exist in many primitive cultures [81: 19].
61. A woi: [Cf. 43 above].
62. Komachi: A character in the Noh play
Kayoi Karnachi, which ends with a dance under the moon. Pound's final note to the play says: "The final dance means that the lovers are spirits fluttering in the grass"
[CNTJ,21].
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112/784-785, 113/786
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8. Talleyrand: [95:13,101:22].
9. Wu . . . Szu: C, "Have no twisty thoughts. " The one sentence which Confu- cious said the anthology of 300 poems could be reduced to [CON, 197]. The "heart's field" should be next to "Wu. "
10. "in civilization": [97/680].
11. Alexander: Emperor of Russia (1801- 1825), who was a significant voice at the Congress of Vienna ("Wien") in 1815.
12. Quemoy: An island off China occupied by Chiang K'ai? shek's troops which carne under attack by the Chinese Communists. A sort of hit? and~run seige from the sea went on for months, which led to Dulles's threat of "massive retaliation" [96: 144].
13. Orage: [80:322].
14. compassione: I, "pity. " 15. Arnor: L, "love. "
16. Geryon: [15:4; 46:3,5].
1. owl . . . fire-fox: Among the birds and aminals which became purified in the Muan Bpo ceremonies [Rock, "Ceremony," 22 ff. ].
2. 3huo ~2hu: NK, "A bay or sorrel horse" [ibid. ].
3. Amrta: NK, "nectar of immortality. " In Na? khi an elaborate ceremony to make it is prescribed. After 9 medicines are made over a period of time, with elaborate rituals (a rhyme with some formulas for making the philosopher's stone), they are put together and "there comes forth a pure, limpid one. " This is Amrta: "some of the medicine (Amrta) reached Heaven, whereupon Heaven became blue; some of it reached the Earth, whereupon the Earth became yellow" [ibid. , 38]. It is used throughout the ceremonies.
4. 3La 2mun 3mi: NK, female figure in~ valved in making Amrta. "From the head of the Celestial . . . lmuan- 3 mi . . . medicinal flowers sprouted, and from her eyes came forth liquid medicine. . . . " A footnote adds: "After three nights she caused a magic and from her breath there carne forth 13 bril- liant . . . Goddesses. 2La- 2mun is the Tibe? tan Lhamo, to which the Na? khi add the word 3 mi = female" [ibid. , 39].
S. 2Ndaw 1bpo: NK, "Sacrifice to Earth. " "If we do not perform 2Ndaw 2bpa . . . all that we have accomplished will not be real"
[ibid. , 41].
6. 2Muan. . . :NK. "If2Muan1bpaisnot performed, all that which we accomplished is not real" [ibid. ]
1. 12 Houses . . . sorry: Signs of the Zodiac. The "seeing" and "tasting" lines are a state? ment of "the tale of the tribe" in brief: a reduction like Confucius's putting the 300 odes into "have no twisty thoughts"
[111:9].
2. Pater Helios: And all transpires under the turning constellations and the sun.
3. "Mortal . . . ears": Trans. of Dante [In! VII, 92].
4. 8piwo<;: H, "lament, esp. for the dead. "
S. Mozart: [26:99].
6. Agassiz:'[93:51].
7. Linnaeus: Karl von Linne, 1707? 1778, Swedish botanist who founded the modern binomial method of designating plants and animals. Although he published over 180
books, his name is here because of the great reverence he showed toward all creation, as expressed in his Philosophia Botanica (1751).
8. Marcella: M. Spann, a constant visitor and friend during the late years at St. Eliza? beths and one of the few people who reo turned with Pound to Italy in 1958. She edited, with Pound's encouragement and help, Confucius to Cummings (1964). The garden could be at Brunnenberg, on the lawn at St. Elizabeths, or both.
9. LiChiang: [101:70].
10. Rock's world: [110:54].
11. Pare . . . : [104:54]. A French doctor famous for saying: "Je Ie pansay, Dieu Ie guarist" ("I dress it [the wound], God heals it") [EH, Letzte, 95].
17. Veritas: L, "truth. "
18. come . . . riva: I, "like a boat [or raft] at the shore. " Variation on Dante's "Come tal volta stanno a riva i burchi" ("As boats sometimes lie at the shore") [Inf. XVII, 19].
19. ex profundis: L, "out of the deep. "
20. Anima into aura: L, "soul i:Jto bright- ness," Alchemical tenn whose aim was to bring forth the lumen natural ("natural light") or the quinta essentia ("quintes- sence") in the shape of the philosopher's stone [76:217].
21. Serenitas: L, "brightness. "
22. Edictum prologo: L, "Edict with prologue. "
23. Rothar: [96:27]. This king of the Lom- bards compiled the civil rights of the Lom- bards into a code [cf. 22 above], fought against the Byzantines, and coined his own gold [JW, Later, 180].
From CXII Glossary
7. Agility . . . : "The . . . family's livestock, grain.