[lit-ideas] Re: Rimbaud, Naked Rock, the Dodged Bullet

  • From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 12:39:53 -0800

on 2/8/05 3:19 PM, William Ball at ballnw@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Si je ne me trompe pas de nouveau...
> Le poeme le plus connu de Rimbaud est, peut etre, "Le Bateau Ivre,
> donc, the battleship grey and the mal de mer couleur vomit green sont
> tres a propos.... et ainsi de suite.
> 
Un reference aussi, sans doute, aux prarie schooners-- ou les Wagons
"heave-ho," comme Rimbaud les a nomme dans son poeme non pas si bien
connu--qu'ont rendus many a poor sod un peu vert around les gills.  Parlons
de Manifest Destiny et tout ca...here's Jessie Benton Fremont and husband
John (the literary gift is said to have been hers, but they published
jointly) on the Wind River Range:

"a gigantic disorder of enormous masses, and a savage sublimity of naked
rock, in a wonderful contrast with innumerable green spots of rich floral
beauty, shut up in their stern recesses."

Yes, she was indeed the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton a senator who had
years before, quite by accident, almost accidentally killed his future
son-in-law.  In the lobby of Nashville's City Hotel, future president Andrew
Jackson got into a shooting fight with Jesse and Thomas Hart Benton, also
others.  One of the bullets lodged in the wall of a room above their heads,
where lay, in a cradle, the months old John Charles Fremont.

David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon

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