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Collage, G.AdC THE ISLAND IS MEMORABLE TO US The island is memorable to us as the change of a mirror or an underground river. The island loses in going. it appears to be still. Half of it, now, is in shadow, and yet it increases in going, memorable as the moon’s changes. It makes unnoticed advances With an appearance of yielding; it slips through the fingers, a stone with a milky luster… No, you cannot hold it, it twists like a woman! Its nights are memorable to us: the black rope-straining goat’s golden- eyed gaze at our passings, the leghorn rooster, white as a bare body’s twisting, the cross enclosed by the cipher, the night enclosed by the rose… Oh, heavy our flow compared to the weight of an island! For we are the anchored, the island a constant white gliding! Tennessee Williams, In the Winter of Cities, A New Directions Books, 1956, 1964 ; The University of the South, 1984, 1992.
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■ Voir aussi ▼ → (sur le site des éditions Seghers) la fiche de l’éditeur consacrée à Dans l’hiver des villes de Tennessee Williams → (sur Terres de femmes) 29 mars 1951 | Oscar de la meilleure actrice décerné à Vivien Leigh |
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