Photo by Prema
In Brighton at the weekend with my 8 year old daughter who was delighted to find a postcard with the caption "Dogs think they are human. Cats think they are God".
Ezra Pound wrote in 1912 of "our kinship to the vital universe, to the tree and the living rock," having "about us the universe of fluid force, and below us the germinal universe of wood alive, of stone alive": man being "chemically speaking . . . a few buckets of water, tied up in a complicated sort of fig-leaf," but capable of having his thoughts in him "as the thought of the tree is in the seed."
Hugh Kenner
Ezra Pound wrote in 1912 of "our kinship to the vital universe, to the tree and the living rock," having "about us the universe of fluid force, and below us the germinal universe of wood alive, of stone alive": man being "chemically speaking . . . a few buckets of water, tied up in a complicated sort of fig-leaf," but capable of having his thoughts in him "as the thought of the tree is in the seed."
Hugh Kenner
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I love that postcard. The photograph, too.
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