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    Sympathetic Magic
    Sympathetic Magic
    Sympathetic Magic
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    Sympathetic Magic

    By Paul Cameron Brown

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Sympathetic Magic - Paul Cameron Brown

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      Title: Sympathetic Magic

      Author: Paul Cameron Brown

      Release Date: August 22, 2009 [EBook #29761]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SYMPATHETIC MAGIC ***

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      Sympathetic Magic

      By

      Paul Cameron Brown

      Copyright (C) 1985 by Paul Cameron Brown

      CONTENTS.

      THE RIVER CUTS A CHANNEL

      People with money but no fortune

      or stomach for the life of an albatross,

      watch him soar on self made wings,

      fetch the dingy redness

      of morning's, first catch

      with a long necked bottle

      he calls the captain

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      PRIMAVERA

      A poem is perishable and,

      like it,

      so much of life is spent

      in intervals --

      the jarring second

      regaining consciousness,

      a post-mortem flick

      of the lank equestrian eyelid

      that signals, morning's first crepuscular move.

      . . . a little salad consciousness

      about the tumescent room

      with the sentient purr of a Cat,

      her musky oils

      a green verdure

      lapping primordial scent

      to engross a little readiness

      as the day progresses

      to its oedipal stage

      and arrested development.

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      SANGUINE

      The clock indicates the hour but what does enternity indicate?

      Whitman

      Imagine, being told cubism isn't painting. That

      Beardsley didn't die at 26, unheralded as a boy genius

      or Corot didn't come to Paris after all.

      Imagine, The Louvre without a rooftop, the

      intelligentsia sitting down to a ragged table

      surrounded by sawdust intellects, Proust not being

      able to write his name.

      Now that's splendour -- that's in-depth feeling.

      That's emotion to pull your socks or catch the bus on

      a brittle day.

      It's easy. Try to feel the event. It's 1896. People are

      perturbed (or so we are told) because the century's

      getting old. Time's rushing by. There's an alarm clock

      set to buzz at eternity's gate, Midnight 1900.

      In probing the malaise that hit Europe circa 1881,

      psychologists would have us believe the world grew

      despondent. Despondent because a whole hundred

      year cycle was about to

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