"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 | ||
