Appropriate Place (2012)

Authors: Lise Bissonnette

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“He has nothing to do with what I’m looking for here — that mama’s boy who left home to come down with his fevers in Africa so he’d seem more interesting when it was time to meet his maker as so many others did in that era of infections and poor hygiene. He got it — his parent’s pity, his sister’s grief, and the everlasting veneration of those in our lands who saw themselves as damned and dangerous poets, not all of whom were lucky enough to have buggered Verlaine at the dawn of their versifying... careers. Let him keep them all for his cult, those vaccinated tourists on pilgrimage to Harar with their filter-ground coffee, their tamed hyenas, their recreated Rimbo House. I too have had my Disney and Eiffel Tower periods. But at least I had the excuse of having studied literature with the nuns and of having encountered Rimbaud and Verlaine, both text and sex foreshortened, only in the Calvet textbook.
I am searching for the earthly paradise. Paradise on earth.MoreLess Read More Read Less