A simple study on what it means to see a ghost in the time when ghosts no longer exist. A viable alternative--albeit long archaic--to Postmodernism, one should explore, is ghostmodernism. How does ghostliness and all of its baggage affect the way we read, listen, see, think, and be? I suspect more than we [can] know.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Then Anticlea came
A lovely and ghostly circularity. Ezra Pound, Canto I:
And Anticlea came, whom I beat off, and then Tiresias Theban,
Holding his golden wand, knew me, and spoke first:
"A second time? why? man of ill star,
"Facing the sunless dead and this joyless region?
"Stand from the fosse, leave me my bloody bever
"For soothsay."
And I stepped back,
And he strong with the blood, said then: "Odysseus
"Shalt return through spiteful Neptune, over dark seas,
"Lose all companions." Then Anticlea came.
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