"the seer mistaken for the seen"
Hughes, Xie, Vallejo, Digges, Pelorson
Langston Hughes:
Jenny Xie:
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César Vallejo (tr. from Spanish by Clayton Eshleman):
Deborah Digges:
George Pelorson, a close friend of Samuel Beckett’s, re a walk they took around 1929 when Beckett was 23. He was wearing Joyce’s shoes, the wrong size:
After a few hundred yards I noticed Sam was walking almost like a duck. I said to him “What’s the matter with you, are your feet hurting?” and he said “yes.” “Why, are you tired?” and he answered “No it’s my shoes. They’re too tight.” “Well, why don’t you change them?” I got no answer or rather I got it years later.
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