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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Jan Zwicky, Wittgenstein and Form


I was thinking that had PART ONE had the single line page headers and PART TWO had double-line page headers ... too obvious? A one unit and then a two unit length line as page headers? Golden ratio lengths? Imagine the unexplained subtle elegance of the book without the PART pages themselves being required as partitions.

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What about a poem which opens with a left indent to
I wonder if it is the case that 
    [and then stanza(s),
    finally ending with
    a right indented ]
        I think that it is so.
Imagine starting to see this as a recurring form in poetry magazines, anthologies.

A paradigm case of  the ugly: a single quote from misguided Ernest Gellner Words and Things, 1st Ed. ?

Dal segno al coda would require us to use U+1D10B as the non-printing HTML UNICODE escape sequence &#1D10B;

The printer or the author was selective in the LW segno chosen?

It was not the segno



Repeat:
And then to the coda.