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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I think therefore I am troubled = RENEE DESCARTES<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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Sunday, February 2, 2014

The Dawning Of A Novel

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Once a story begins

in the hidden cellars of the brain,

a thousand little thievish atoms steal out

automatically raiding friends’ confidences,

woes, loves, desires,

to build and furnish complete

the edifice which the artist,

erasing all other sources and signatures,

canceling all debts,

believes his own magnificent sorcery.

Dawn Powell
Turn, Magic Wheel



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Footnotes
What was written as prose is presented here as verse.

Nothing would delight me more than to have
a fellow Powellista challenge the conversion.

The next Dawn Powell page is here.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2014 at 6:27 PM

    A poem is just an intake of breath

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    1. Paul OliverioFebruary 3, 2014 at 6:42 AM

      Loudly ring the bells:
      Laughter is the breath of angels

      Between their life and death
      Poetry is their uber-breath

      I do so declare
      About the Crying Towel
      None waved it louder
      Than Dawn Powell

      Ears open wider
      For talk we are missin'
      To the airwaves
      We tune in and listen

      Thanks to George Harrison
      This I know:
      Gossip is the devil's radio

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