Word: rimbaud
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...Temps. Father Grosjean sings: "Anarchy is order between persons. All the rest is merely commerce." He scorns the church's philosophic mainstays, Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, and dislikes Catholic poets Charles Péguy and Paul Claudel. Instead, anarchist philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and pagan poet Arthur Rimbaud are Father Grosjean's favorites. He says: "I have no political ideas, but if political practice reflected the purity of theory I would be an anarchist. I believe the path of progress that is natural and beneficial for man is toward an anarchist community. Some day I may leave...
Sergeant Selden Rodman, editor-on-leave of Common Sense, now stationed in Washington, D.C.: "All serious war poetry is antiwar poetry. . . . Some of the best war poetry has been written by poets who have never been near a battlefield-witness Thomas Hardy, Rilke, Rimbaud. But . . . almost all the poetry glorifying war has [also] been written by people who have never been near a battlefield...
Until the vacation the Poetry Room, that little are Classics are another of his experiments, a series of inexpensive reprints of modern works which Laughlin considers of lasting value. Rimbaud, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and Andre Gide are among the names included or planned for inclusion. A third series, The Makers of Modern Literature, is composed of what Laughlin terms "critical guidebooks" to the great modern authors--Joyce, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Lorca, Baudelaire, and a list of on display some of the products of New Directions Books from the years of its infancy to its present flourishing...
...there is a constant babel of dissatisfied litigants. In five minutes on any street one may see an Armenian fighting with a Hindu; an Abyssinian woman with her simian face smeared with rancid butter to keep vermin away; an old bishop who knew the strange, sad, lame poet-adventurer Rimbaud, France's Byron, when he lived in Harar; a beautiful, brown-skinned, high-breasted Harari woman carrying a load of wood on her head as if it were a tiara ; a big black with a lion cub on a leash; an Abyssinian policeman who looks ferocious with leaves stuffed...
...only to hear of Quinette in connection with a woman's mysterious disappearance to assume (on no grounds) his guilt. He seeks him out and, in a state of mind half parlor-game, half maniacal sincerity, woos him as a "Master," a "Dark Angel," the modest herald of Rimbaud's "heyday of assassination." He drives the tricky, mousy little murderer nearly witless with hypnosis and fear. Inevitably too, he is no more enmeshing than enmeshed. In rage and shame as an amateur, a rejected disciple, he is drawn at length into a botched attempt at sexual murder...