Secession: Secession (Number one)

Secession (Number one) (1)

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Titel:: Secession

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften

Dokumenttyp:: Zeitschrift

Signatur:: DADA III:8

Persistenter Identifier:: 23830

Erscheinungsort:: Vienna

Verlag:: Secession

Sprache:: Englisch; Französisch

ISSN:: 0000-0000

Zeitschriftenband

Titel:: Secession (Number one)

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften

Dokumenttyp:: Zeitschriftenband

Signatur:: DADA III:8:1

Persistenter Identifier:: 23831

Bandzählung:: 1

Erscheinungsort:: Zürich

Ausgabenbezeichnung:: [Electronic ed.]

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Titel:: Day coach

Sammlung:: Zeitschriften

Dokumenttyp:: Zeitschrift

Strukturtyp:: Gedicht

Autor:: Cowley, Malcolm

2 III As the other train passed he looked through the plate glass of the dining car — the other — and saw a fork suspended in the air and before it had finished its journey he was peering into a smoking car with a silver haze and four men playing cards over a suitcase clamped to their knees. A world, a veritable world, as seen beneath the microscope. A world in an envelope sealed with the red tail light that proceeded gravely past him up the track. A world sealed out of his world and living for thirty-five seconds of his life. IV The lights of the train proceed transversely across the water; across the water strides the shadow of the engineer; the square barred windows move across the water as if they marked a prison that exists never between four walls, but only moves continually across a world of waters. V His head drooped lower gradually; he dreamed of the locomotive that boldly had deserted the comfortable assurance of steel rails; it turned and leaped like a beast hunted along the wooded slope. BMMMP over logs, over stones and among the trees that leaned away from it as it passed, and all the time the engineer bending out of his cab and saying — The four fourteen will be on time at Youngsville the four fourteen will be on time WON’T it, Bill. And the trees, reassured, lean back to their posts again. VI Time is marked not by hours but by cities; we are one station before Altoona, one station beyond Altoona;

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