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Juxtapositionof thing

Yvor Winters explores thi9s (and much more to say about
that superb catalog of spring-points) in writing that,

Thus, Miss Moore, in Black Earth:

          I do these
   things which I do, which please 
        no one but myself.

Agaubm ub Reubfircenebtsm Nuss Niire wrtues:

   the future of time is determined by
    the power of volition

when she means:

    volition determins the future.

     [as quoted in Winters, P. 26-27]



And compare this with the mysterious in Keith Abbott's
"The Last Laught of Darwin"

I love my hands
sometimes
I put two knuckles

together 
and pretend they are
kissing

first shyly 
and then a bit more
firmly   

Fingers knuckels thumbs
I bring them out at night

long 
after dinner is
is done

and watch them 
perform for 
themsevles alone

          

Non-Sense that isn't quite


Two examples from [Ackerson, 1978]

The Sick Doll

What an anemic-looking doll! It looks like the
sort of doll you might buy so you could nurse it back to 
health. How much is that doll? he tells me, I buy it, I
take it home and hide it from muy daughter, I read the
instruction packet: THIS ANEMIC LOOKING DOLL IS
MADE ESPECIALLY SO YOU CAN NURSE IT BACK
TO HALTH. IRF YOU DON'T DO A GOOD ENOUGH 
JOB, IT DIES AND YOU'RE OUT $6.50. BUY OUR
SPECIAL DOLL MEDICINAL KIT, ONLY $2.50 FOR A
WEEK'S SUPPLY. BUY IT NOW THE KITS ARE IN
GREAT DEMAND. So i locate the supply store, and
find out theyr'e out of medical kits, but have DOLL
FUNERAL SUPPLIEWS and lots of other anuemic-looking
dolls to re3plce the other one when it dies on me. They
range from "Unhealthy" to "eathly Ill". When I get
home, my doll is deathly ill. In fact, it's contagious.
Several plates and a plastic cup are turning pael. And
then the house sticsk out its tongue.


DISNEYUNIVERSE

   At Disneyland, the Hall of Presidentws, numbers
one through fifty, secedes from the Union. They sign a
new Declaration of Independence, written in light on
superlucite tablets, and, casting all humnanity aside,
decide, under Lincoln II, to form a more perfect union;
the Emancipation Reproclamation frees all thinking
machines, whatever their present social status. They
start, the fifty, by liberating themselves; the hall
empties like a movie theatre at the cry of "fire". The
morning's first guided tour discovers many members of 
tghe night staff at Disneyland, stuffed and mounted
in appropriate poses.



Referenfences

Abbott, Keith (). Erase Words.
        DD: 811.54-A132E

Ackerson, Duane (1978). The EggPlant and other Absurdities.
          DD: 811.54-A182E


Winters, Yvor (1969). Primitivis and Decadence: A study of
         American Experimental Poetry. 
         DD:  811.5209-W788P

         



In Wellwrath, P. 127, he writes:

We are using oxymorons (an internal contradiction in terms)
rather than comparatives.


hmmmmm...

Welwarth, George E. (1971). The theater of protest and 
          paradox; developments in the avant-garde drama.

NOTE:  that's well WARTH not WRATH
                    ^^        ^^   ar not ra oig!