Arthur Rimbaud

[bobbyburns]

seventeen-year-old boy genius.

 

[bobbyburns]

definitely worth quoting ...

<sigh>

but I got nothing to quote.

 

[warm_enema]

Why are there not more fans of his genius?

 

[lies]

I don't really know Rimbaud. Well, I've maybe read a few poems by him, but not enough to have a strong opinion, or just something to say for that matter. Poetry's usually not my "thing".

 

[bobbyburns]

read a season in hell and tell me, honestly, he isn't a goddamn beautiful writer.

 

[lies]

Well, I'll see what I can do. What's the original title?

 

[bobbyburns]

une saison en enfer.

 

[lies]

Well there you go. It almost seems logical, doesn't it? (I'll get back to you in the weekend, when I'll have had the time to look it up.)

 

[lies]

I looked for it at the library, but they didn't have it... They had books about it, but the actual text... nowhere to be found. I don't get librarians.

 

[bobbyburns]

I can pm (or e-mail) you a copy in english or french, whichever you prefer.

 

[lies]

Well, if it's no bother, I'd love the French version very much...

 

[bobbyburns]

it's a pretty long poem ... is there a limit on the number of characters you can have in a private message?

 

[JimMorrison]

a season in hell is flawless.

it appears to be a work of confession. but it also involves autobiography, philosophy, psychology.

yet this confession differs from all others because of its brevity and the explosive quality of its language.

the meaning of evil is constantly being converted into the meanings of action and the meaning of words.

 

[bobbyburns]

jim morrison, you bastud, you are hella young diggin up old threads like this one.

 

[JimMorrison]

bobbyburns i want to recommend you a book that opened my eyes to rimbaud's verbal magic

Rimbaud and Morrison by Wallace Fowlie

it is surprsing how similar they both are.

 

[bobbyburns]

you're pretty cewl, jim morrison (if that's your real name).

 

[Fieldy]

FOR A REASON

'Striking your fingers on a drum discharges all sound and begins a new harmony'

Beautiful

 

[Ronny]

I've been meaning to post this and always forget a link to a site that has his life and some of his works in the original french and in english http://www.mag4.net/Rimbaud/indexe.html

 

[Thickney]

if I were to start a Paul Verlaine thread, do you think it would shoot this thread in a drunken rage?