"The wind is part of the process
The rain is part of the process. --EZRA POUND, Canto LXXIV.
"Both Joyce and Pound felt that the traditional narrative form of epic was obsolete and replaced it with what Joyce called Epiphany and what Pound called Ideogram.
To Joyce, an epiphany meant any event however seeming trivial
which revealed something "grave and constant" in human affairs.
To Pound, an ideogram meant an event which illuminated things far
beyond what it referred to. It seems impossible to disentangle [[Joyce]]’s Epiphany from [[Pound]]’s Ideogram. --Robert Anton Wilson, Recorsi: The Tale of the Tribe.
Image: CHING MING (By fly Agaric 23)
A small selection of sporting spirits from FINNEGANS WAKE By James Joyce:
"My sights are swimming thicker on me by the
shadows to this place. I sow home slowly now by own way,
moyvalley way. --215.
"Yes, you're changing, sonhusband, and
you're turning, I can feel you, for a daughterwife from the hills
again. Imlamaya. And she is coming. Swimming in my hindmoist.
Diveltaking on me tail. Just a whisk brisk sly spry spink spank
sprint of a thing theresomere, --627.
"my pen is upt to scratch, to compound quite the makings
of a verdigrease savingsbook in the form of a pair of capri
sheep boxing gloves surrounding this matter of the Welsfusel
mascoteers and their sindybuck that saved a city for my publickers,
Nolaner and Browno, --412.
"Since alls
war that end war let sports be leisure and
bring and buy fair. Ah ah athclete, blest your
bally bathfeet! --279.
"fair dream of
sport and game and always something new. --472.
“Dom on dam,
dim in dym. And a capital part for olympics to ply at. Steadyon,
Cooloosus! Mind your stride or you'll knock. While I'm dodging
the dustbins. Look what I found! --625.
"Health, chalce, endnessnessessity! Arrive, likkypuggers, in
a poke! The folgor of the frightfools is olympically
optimominous; there is bound to be a lovleg day for mirrages in the
open; --613.
"having conned the cones and meditated the
mured and pondered the pensils and ogled the
olymp and delighted in her dianaphous and
cacchinated behind his culosses, before a
mosoleum. --261.
"wurming along gradually for our savings backtowards
motherwaters so many miles from bank and Dublin stone (olympiading
even till the eleventh dynasty to reach that thuddysickend
Hamlaugh) --84.
"I did devise my telltale sports at
evenbread to wring her withers limberly, wheatears, slapbang --550.
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Image: LING By Fly Agaric 23.
"To Pound, the ideogram represents the one form of
written language that has been used to build society,
but which is also based directly upon natural forces.
Ideograms thus have a kind of double-focus,
pointing to both the world of human activity and to the
unchanging patterns of energy and fruition.
Because Pound was convinced that signs granted by
nature itself and infinitely richer than any conventionalized
notation "and from nature the sign" (CII:730) -Micheal Berstein, The Tale of The Tribe.
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