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> > By the way, Sh. could see the
> colour of > articulated words (another archaic ability
> > of his mind).*** *************************
Why insist on seeing this as "archaic?" I am thinking of
Rimbaud's "colours of the vowel" scheme, and the colours Joyce
> assigns to letters throughout Ulysses; the colours schemas of Finnegans
> Wake (I mean the colour schematics of the letter-permutation
structures), Rimbaud and Joyce (to name two)> are notable examples of
articulate, modernist minds who see words in "colour." Among the
Romantics, Shelley saw words in colour clumps, and although I cannot say
for sure, I would suspect that Baudelaire and Mallarme saw
word-cluster-colours when writing. It is a form of synesthia that
Baudealire cultivated. Later the Dada poets, (many of whom became
Surrealists Tzara et.al.)> did work with the colours of vowels and their contrasting consonantal
> colours. And Isidore Isou (of the Lettrists Movement)and Michel
Lemaitre did work along similar lines... Then there is that tower standing
out alone... Antonin Artuad the great schizophrenic poet to whom words
were sound, colour, smell and taste... all this really to
> say I dont think this sense of language can be described as "archaic."
> It may not be common, but that is another story.
> "All words were restless sailors waiting to climb
> your lips, restless tongues hungering.
> Her lover's clutch - she speaks the scarlet
> red of his body twitch. His lips tear a nail from a word,
> it bleeds dead red, a noun. It holds,
Now Hovers, a sexual verb scatters
> a paradise before parades." (trans.)
> Rimbaud's description of the vowels can be found in several letters, as
> well as the poem Voyelles.
> "Words, the mothers of bodies and tongues."
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