[NetBehaviour] From The Armand Schwerner Dictionary

[Alan Sondheim]

>From The Armand Schwerner Dictionary


http://www.library.upenn.edu/images/rbm/manuscripts/apr/1603.jpg

I love Armand Schwerner's work.

I have Armand's copy of The New Up-To-Date English-Japanese
Conversation Dictionary by Mr. and Mrs. O. Vaccari, Maruzen, 1983.

To do an archeology with or through the dictionary, through his
notes and Japanese/English lookups, I have found the following, in
English, perhaps another poem with chiasms, hiatus, blanks;
presented verbatim, perhaps a message, massage, perhaps an other:


locker
luggage office
shop difficult key [a condensation]
toilet

shijin - poet [requiring a pause, and Japanese]
Buddhist
dancer
here near beautiful music [requiring a condensation]

noodle soup cold first 2nd [a third condensation]
stop(bus)

4 tsubs [unclear]
4,000,000
400,00 [reference to yen]
$1666.66 [exchange rate?]
100,000

track
food

following, next
f[...]er [perhaps faster?]
ointment eye [condensation]
music store
[....] [perhaps self?]
what kind...?

Shinkansen [cognate with English]
will we be in time for the sh. to Kyoto?
what time?
say
she's waiting
how many stops until Hachiman?
N.
s. [then kita, minami, explains everything]
also telephone  [condensation]
sugar bowl of rice ["]
a bit cheaper, can't you?
key copy
bot-gdn. [reference to botanical garden, Kyoto?]

small disciple [?]
dish
out-of-doors
kikaiteki [indecipherable English, Japanese]
cuttlefish grilled chicken [condensation]

*/Insert 1/*
receipt: 360 360 360 1000 2080* : crossed out
450 450 450 450 1.300 1.300 1.300 1.300 7.000*

*/Insert 2/*
ruled Japanese kanji practice paper

*/Insert 3/*
map of "The Kyoto Botanical Garden"
written on map:
phragmipedium naeki (seedlings)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phragmipedium]

*/Insert 4/* Souvenier receipt (ticket?) in Japanese

Signature in The New Up-To-Date English-Japanese
Conversation-Dictionary: Armand Schwerner

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Schwerner
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Schwerner.html
http://jacketmagazine.com/10/fink-r-schw.html
Armand Schwerner, The Tablets. Orono, ME, National Poetry
Foundation, 1999. 158 pp. + CD. $19.95.

Armand approves

Armand Schwerner, 1927-1999