"The Fire Sermon" Annotations
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Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | Go back to [[Shoring Up Fragments Against Our Ruin: Quotations and Allusions]] | ||
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==Buddha== | ==Buddha== | ||
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But at my back in a cold blast I hear | But at my back in a cold blast I hear | ||
The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear. | The rattle of the bones, and chuckle spread from ear to ear. | ||
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+ | ==Ovid== | ||
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+ | Allusion to Ovid's [[''Metamorphoses'']] | ||
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+ | Twit twit twit | ||
+ | Jug jug jug jug jug jug | ||
+ | So rudely forc'd. | ||
+ | Tereu | ||
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+ | ==Charles Baudelaire== | ||
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+ | Allusion to [[“Des Sept Viellards” in ''Les Fleurs du Mal'']] | ||
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+ | Unreal City | ||
+ | Under the brown fog of a winter noon |