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For to be fully conscious of oneself as an
individual is also to be separated from all else. This is Hamlet's kingdom of infinite space in a nutshell, of " words, words,
words, of "Denmark's a prison."
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Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to
combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium is seasoned with terror and with death.
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Workers peasants soldiers were in a state of excitement and poetry. When this short brilliant phase ended,
what came next? The most boring society in history.
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Modern French literature is especially preoccupied with the theme of boredom.
Stendhal mentioned it on every page, Flaubert devoted books
to it, and Baudelaire was its chief poet. What is the reason for
this peculiar French sensitivity?
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This insight I owe to Von Humboldt Fleisher who showed me how it was done by James Joyce, but anyone who
reads books can easily find it out for himself.
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--all the highly
gifted see themselves shunted for decades onto dull sidings, ban-
ished exiled nailed up in chicken coops. Imagination has even
tried to surmount the problems by forcing boredom itself to
yield interest.
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"Were you in Korea?"
"No, I said. "The French government gave me that. The Legion of Honor. Im a knight, a chevalier. Their ambassador
decorated me.
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Though I threw up my palms
and shrieked with laughter( looking like one of Goya's frog caricatures in the VisiΓ³n Burlesca)
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"Your weakness for your school chums isn't to be believed. You have the nostalgie de la boue. Does he take you around to the whores?"
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I must have received ten such calls from Rinaldo Cantabile. The late Von Humboldt Fleisher had also used the dramatic properties of night to bully
and harass people.
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My way of laughing has often been
criticized. Well-disposed people are amused by it. Others can
be offended.
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He came from left field of this. I shan't be too exact about the time of this. I was then becoming careless about time, a symptom of my increasing absorption in larger questions.
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He was filled with gossip and hallucination as well as literary theory. Distortion was inherent, yes,
in all poetry. But which came first?
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"Which of the Rockefellers bought her?"
"Bought is the word," said Humboldt, "She was sold by her father. Never again smile when you read about White Slavery
in the Sunday supplements."
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Poct, thinker, problem drinker, pill-taker, man of genius, manic depressive, intricate schemer, success story, he once
wrote poems of great wit and beauty, but what had he done lately? Had he uttered the great words and songs he had in
him? He had not.
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Humboldt's themes was the perennial human feeling that there was an original world, a home-world, which was lost. Sometimes he spoke of Poetry as the merciful Ellis Island where
host of aliens began their naturalization
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Kathleen spent most of the day reading. To understand what her husband was
talking about she had to catch up, she said, on James, Proust, Edith Wharton, Karl Marx, Freud, and so on.
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"I have a record- hubcap-stealing, marijuana, sex offenses,
hot cars, chased by cops, crashing, hospital, probation officers,
the whole works. But I also know about three thousand Bible verses. Brought up on hellfire and damnation."
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To follow his intricate conversation you had to know his basic texts. I knew what they were: Plato's Timaeus,
Proust on Combray, Virgil on farming, Marvell on gardens, Wallace Stevens's Caribbean poetry, and so on.
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At the morgue there were no readers of
modern poetry. The name Von Humboldt Fleisher meant nothing, So he lay there, another derelict.
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The ballads were pure, musical, witty, radiant,humane, I think they were Platonic. By Platonic I refer to an
original perfection to which all human beings long to return.
Yes, Humboldt's words were impeccable. Genteel America had nothing to worry about.
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-if Energy is Delight and if Exuberance is Beauty, the Manic Depressive knows more about Delight and Beauty than
anyone else. Who else has so much Energy and
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I wasn't doing so well myself recently when Humboldt acted from the grave, so to speak, and made a basic change in my life. In spite of our big fight and ffteen years of estrangement he left me something in his will. I came into a legacy.
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Maybe America didn't need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very more IT, the less WE.
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And I don't say he actually plagiarized, but he did steal something from
me-my personality. He built my personality into his hero.
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Lying on the sofa, Citrine remembers and grieves, and spins out scene after scene about Humboldt's great, sad life.
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