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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Arc.hive@tekspost.no
Subject: From The Armand Schwerner Dictionary
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:38:08 -0400 (EDT)
From The Armand Schwerner Dictionary http://www.library.upenn.edu/images/rbm/manuscripts/apr/1603.jpg I love Armand Schwerner's work. I have Armand's copy of The New Up-To-Date English-Japanese Conversation Dictionary by Mr. and Mrs. O. Vaccari, Maruzen, 1983. To do an archeology with or through the dictionary, through his notes and Japanese/English lookups, I have found the following, in English, perhaps another poem with chiasms, hiatus, blanks; presented verbatim, perhaps a message, massage, perhaps an other: locker luggage office shop difficult key [a condensation] toilet shijin - poet [requiring a pause, and Japanese] Buddhist dancer here near beautiful music [requiring a condensation] noodle soup cold first 2nd [a third condensation] stop(bus) 4 tsubs [unclear] 4,000,000 400,00 [reference to yen] $1666.66 [exchange rate?] 100,000 track food following, next f[...]er [perhaps faster?] ointment eye [condensation] music store [....] [perhaps self?] what kind...? Shinkansen [cognate with English] will we be in time for the sh. to Kyoto? what time? say she's waiting how many stops until Hachiman? N. s. [then kita, minami, explains everything] also telephone [condensation] sugar bowl of rice ["] a bit cheaper, can't you? key copy bot-gdn. [reference to botanical garden, Kyoto?] small disciple [?] dish out-of-doors kikaiteki [indecipherable English, Japanese] cuttlefish grilled chicken [condensation] */Insert 1/* receipt: 360 360 360 1000 2080* : crossed out 450 450 450 450 1.300 1.300 1.300 1.300 7.000* */Insert 2/* ruled Japanese kanji practice paper */Insert 3/* map of "The Kyoto Botanical Garden" written on map: phragmipedium naeki (seedlings) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmipedium] */Insert 4/* Souvenier receipt (ticket?) in Japanese Signature in The New Up-To-Date English-Japanese Conversation-Dictionary: Armand Schwerner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Schwerner http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Schwerner.html http://jacketmagazine.com/10/fink-r-schw.html Armand Schwerner, The Tablets. Orono, ME, National Poetry Foundation, 1999. 158 pp. + CD. $19.95. Armand approves Armand Schwerner, 1927-1999