No problem...I didn't know about the gun running, though. But your right, Juenger probably did.
Mark On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, John King wrote: > Mark, > > Thanks for the references. I'm glad someone's got a better memory than > me... > > > poetry. Somewhere I recall Juenger mentioning Rimbaud's vita, i.e. his > > choice of a "stable income" in the last years of his life over the > > life a poet but I'm not sure where(maybe in "Autor und > > Hm, don't know if trying to join up in various mercenary forces and gun > running in Abyssinnia counts as having a "stable income". If anything, I > would attribute part of Juenger's early enthusiasm for Rimbaud to > precisely this adventurous life. As well of course to the fact that > Rimbaud was nothing short of a lyric genius. Maybe he was also attracted > by his notion that the poet should be a 'voyant', penetrating to the > 'inconnu'. Don't know what Juenger made of Rimbaud's famous dictum that > "Je est un autre"... > > John > ============================================================================== > John King > St. John's College > GB - Oxford OX1 3JP > ============================================================================== > > > ==================** You are subscribed to ernst-juenger-l. To leave send a > mail to [email protected] containing: unsubscribe ernst-juenger-l ** > >
