XI. Le soleil se révélait des côtes de le canot

XI. Le soleil se révélait des côtes de le canot

Elinor was alternately diverted and pained; but Marianne persevered, and saw every night in the brightness of the fire, and every morning in the appearance of the atmosphere, the certain symptoms of approaching frost. –Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811)

On the grounds of The Vyne, harkening back to the new moon stumbled unearthing of a Roman iron plough coulter

After the first of September's 1811 showing of the comet in the constellation Argo Navis—Since Edward received the living

Of the rectory at Steventon; shielding from unintended visits the same pages of Thucydides (Book VIII), which were Letronne’s indication of terrains of the Peloponnesian Wars (1812)—Underwritten by native gold deposits in Syracuse; this acreage likewise became a dug woodland (Scapta Hyle), and after, for a mental landscape—Made comprehensive by the unenclosed bladder cherry’s

Paper filigrees; each rubbed of its alizarin, for an orb of red coral smuggled in the mouth of a Mameluke Bey just slaughtered by the Ottoman governate (March 1811)—One of eight children, Jane Austen,

In the second peak of parenchymal disease; meaning, to pour in, from afferent lymphocytes, described by Malpighi (1666) and Hodgkin (1832); first read of the massacre at the limestone enceinte

Quarried by Salah al-Din, from which Napoleon passed from the Ajaccio of his birth to the enceinte

Of Cairo (24 July 1789)—Of the Tower of the Knights Templar along the Marais, where other dinner guests removed to La Force (13 August 1793), the contained Vetoes’s mode of execution was lent from the design of a swinging bridge, and events proceeded by tumbril apace that neither rowel nor coulter

Shaped since the pyroclastic fissure in Iceland (1783) obscured Europe in rust—The Emperor demolished the Tower (16 March 1808); recollecting with a pain the willow slips and candles left there, by the inscription L….XVII 1785-1795, until Marie Louise went into labor (19 March 1811)—Jane Austen’s

Father thought it prudent to send her away with her sister, given waves of London epidemics around the epicenter’s Newgate Prison, from returning navies berthed at Gibraltar spreading the putrid fever of typhus—Charles Nicolle (June 1903) observed of the living

At the overburdened Tunisian hospital, sufferers shorn of their hair and clothing, that only their launderers swiftly perished; arguing for the bite of the louse, and the post-convalescent serum as the preemptive—Exiled Thucydides
Knew (September 1, 1939) such combatant hymns of Mars delivered from their cruder edge by paians to Apollo, and To Edward, the arrow—You are what you always were! In the figure-to-ground of the paper mosaic of red cockscomb, the coqueret, more prized than faded Linnaean specimens, Mary Delany’s Winter Cherry (1772-1788)—

Insignificantly toxic member of the Nightshade family, with the mandragora’s pupil dilation, partial paralysis, offered to Rachel; an embodiment of the gates of Isis, enjoined by the spell text of the lover who finds seven maidens sitting upon a spring of water, for the heliacal rising of the Pleiades in March at navigium Isidis, all within the chandelier of winter cherry

Otherwise known as Love-in-a-cage—With its unchanged luster of two red lobsters and a ham, a fish, a pudding, and some pears and oranges drawn first from photographs (1904); a spread in all actuality chilled with China snow, or East Bengal saltpeter, from the dearth of it in the cannon of the Battle of Aboukir (1 August 1798) appointing Norman Warne’s dollhouse—Whose leukemia the subsequent year is hastened by breathing lacquers—He fashioned the townhouse with hinged enceintes,

To be enjoyed by his niece, Winifred; though she had difficulty reaching the uppermost floor, as the one that he and Helen might share—Unlike most planned Regency communities; the unfeasible best in crescents, and far from the bedeviled printer’s, in the vesture of marble blocks seeming more to resemble the thirteenth and youngest son, Josiah Wedgwood’s creamware—Thucydides

Is replete with such Pentelic inscriptions inarticulate to their human deeds—Mice reside there best, when the dolls are out visiting beyond their triangular pediment and crêpe grate; graciously, without the non-matching window sashes of most apartments before the achievement of glace-coulée, of poured plate glass, by the craftsmen poached from the Saint-Gobain manufactory for La Galerie de Glaces (1665)—After this Age of Iron’s bootscrapes and coulters

Introduced by the Romans, and markedly absent from the laminated fossil beds of the Dorset coast; never mind the Napoleonic invasion across the Channel (1803)—Jane Austen,

Received tales of the flippered crocodile of Elston, and antediluvian sinner, discovered by Dr. Robert Darwin around the base of a well, and presented by the physician and druid, William Stukeley at a meeting of the Royal Society presided by Newton (1719)—She thought, for the sake of a situation, her kind, like lizards, impressed in pages of unsympathetic sediments; there, she sketched Emma Watson (1803), in effect of the Austen living

Unpardonably imitated in the passing of the patriarch (1805)—Astronomer Royal, the home-educated John Flamsteed died the last day of 1719, from a living

In Greenwich produced by Charles II by his sea course-plotting by fixed stars and the stations of the moon now hosting the star catalogues, Historia Coelestis Britannica Edmond Halley circulated as his birthright, against its compiler's wishes; after examining rents in the liberated night, thrown upon a bonfire in 1712, which Margaret Flamsteed amended (1725, 1729)—With the large flower occupying most of the visual left field, of the time ball on the roof of Wren’s octagonal Royal Observatory (1675) when, at last, the staked winter cherry

Surmounts it, in 1833, and Ada Lovelace made the acquaintance of Charles Babbage by Mary Fairfax Somerville, the widow of two naval officers, who absorbed stars and the planetary motions of Laplace (1799-1827), with their insolation on vegetable growth—After the Ovidean Erasmus Darwin’s aim of restoring the original animality garnishing their buttonholes (1789-94), with the five plates Blake provided, with the plurality of sexes on one stem, against all the deficiencies of nature and education Jane Austen

Found frequently in women—At the same time, Frances Burney pens The Wanderer; Or, Female Difficulties (March 1814), as Juliet Ellis disembarks from the Terror with an Admiral, whose open piano-forte is thought unsuitable for a lady’s attachment to a good family, where Marianne’s performance; exclusive to the Colonel, in marriage, is refined—Despite, or because of these infelicities, the enceinte

Contracts the width of one’s own frame; shortened by childhood typhus, Caroline Herschel issued the Catalogue of Stars to Flamsteed’s tables, with errata, and embroidered with 560 new accessions (1798)—Lina’s arrested stature, and vaccinia scar to her left eye that had seen the comet (1 August 1786), both which would have been of particular interest to Thomas Hodgkin, apothecarist’s assistant and morbid anatomist, until the death of his great-uncle provided him with independent means, and reception from the expected enthusiasm characterizing the amateur; granting, the lights of St. Guy’s who were later indisposed to touch Laënnec’s stethoscope (1832)—He at last qualified in 1826, to stand in occasionally on the first lectures of the general Thucydides (II.47)

Affording immunity from the plague within the shadow of the temple of Athena Nike, after striking down Pericles (429 B.C.E), with the Athenian coulters

Upturning shallow pits, where carrion birds or those deceased from bacteremia, later shunned (II.49)—The plough-coulter

Of the Septentrion; at no time headlong into the seas of deception, witnesses at the end of Nox VI (1852) coronation of the Augustule, Louis Napoléon (2 December 1851), in the Notre-Dame of Adéle Hugo and Sainte-Beuve’s meetings—The living

In sight of the decrepit elephant set in 1832, and the sunken groundwork of the Bastille, from Napoleon’s conceits of Bernini (1667), recover the original Strife of Love in Dream (1499), or as Thucydides

Held of the 432-425 B.C.E. Archidamian infantry, as an elephant, fixed against the naval superiority of the Athenian whale (Book IV)—The last eight years (1809-1817) were taken with reduced intensity from fatigue, about the circular walking path from Chawton to Alton, in which a lady chanced upon the calyces of the lantern as a marriage bed, as they were not frost tender, the bladder cherry—

From the doctrine of correspondences, Physalis alkekengi treated conditions of the aforesaid organ, and beyond, the renal calcification of Saturn’s slow-to-fuse skeleton that age turns to gravel, and accumulating in Jane Austen’s

Distended lymph nodes, to add to the conjunctivitis making the octagonal drawing room table blurred, but kept free from her papers—Withdrawn into the enceinte

Of herself, she secured against the scrutiny reserved for the female invalid, while suffering unnamed bilious attacks, whereas Thomas Hodgkin having had less knowledge of the exact pathology and course, submits Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen (10 January 1832) to an audience of eight—Qualified less by dotage, but never tragic, as those guided by what they say of themselves; the thought of the kindness of Chawton’s enceinte

Of a walled garden and planting scheme courtesy of Edward Knight (1813)—When drought forced the piped water perilously low, to auditors the half-open conduit lying within earshot was the trickle of the water clock supplied by an Acropolis viaduct—Within a construction engraved by Baker and Leigh for William Stukeley (1776) of an Athenian compass with four favorable and four contravening winds that accorded the Radcliffe Observatory (1794), and even more pertinent to the moldboard and coulter

Chariots lasting there reconciled to the winds spilling their shields and urns of hale and desiccating air—Jane Austen

Occupied 8 College Street, Winchester; another fortification, with callers palpating the preauricular and submental landmarks of an malady indeed disfiguring but painless—Then there was the living,

Northanger Abbey (1798-1817), revised for Gothic strains as telescope filters, of otherwise invisible features borne by the figure of Thucydides

Vacating now, for the second century Pausanias, who mentions effigies of Hygieia and Athena Hygieia following the plague of Athens—Unless we veer off the meridian during sweeping, there is the import of Raphael’s Loggia di Amore e Psiche (1517-18), as with all truths, in the trimming, of her room’s blue jasperware copy set to its best advantage by an arrangement of bladder cherry—

In the morning civil twilight’s choice fifth of the Lucius Apuleius’s Metamorphoses, regarded from Bath with the same sensibilities, Psyche at last delivered of a child whom we called Pleasure (XVIII), and Venus rising no higher than 47 degrees, as it had from Madauros (125 B.C.E.)—Despite the captive reader’s aching neck, from detachment from the enceinte of the body; nested in wall of the centuries with a strange cloche resounding, among made things, of the bladder cherry husk

Of life within death—Retreating from the asinine without a preceding coulter, but we know this, the pentagonal synod of Venus and Earth, completing thirteen for every eight orbits, respectively in a pentangle of the Pythagoreans, is nearly every eight years—With no less than the myth and mystery of Thucydides, the octagonal outlay of Castel del Monte, with towers for azimuth sightings, for when Orion, the blind man according to Lucian, stands in Apulia, for one day in August—

Given Jane Austen's often resorted to blindness, as brought on by vanity, we nevertheless achieve an equitable living—

V. Les filés des étoiles

V. Les filés des étoiles

The river-water was sombre and weedy, full of little shoals of needle-fishes and their shadows, of curling water-snakes and the triangular divisions of flow around peebles and borders. This mild blue, here, was to be seen in that terrain. –A.S. Byatt’s “A Lamia in the Cévennes: Stories of Fire and Ice” from Elementals (1992)

Stations of the lion on assumption of the Portuguese, who tacked the volta do mar before the Low Countries writhed Joost de Hondt’s Leo Belgicus (1611); the mapmaker whose globe rechristens Vermeer’s Astronomer (1688), and as with cold

Currents of sargassum circling the Azores, in highest summer variabilities, the westward rock rose at the bottom of their wells—Rosary of the ocean with hollow beads, to spindrift the Keyser manifest on Hollandia from Texel (1595) and the Mauritius from Madagascar to VOC Surabaya—On board, Pieter Platevoet arranged the Southern constellations dark

To the Ptolemies, and the Welser and Fuggers displacing the Medici from Augsburg, until their counsel, Johann Bayer, lent the Greek and Latin organizing principles for Uranometria (1603) naming deep

Sky objects by magnitude, before Messier and Méchain; absolutely

Breaching the objective of one’s focus, in want of the computation of orbits, sighted the first non-comet anomaly that would be a catalog, the Crab nebula (M1), on the Southern horn of Taurus (August 28, 1758)—One of the clear,

Or at least remaining, alibis of narration, when one went too far away alone, which Edith and Little Bear found in Elementals (1992), is vanadium

Second-most abundant transition metal of seawater, having drawn from the planed cerulean, this, from an index on their shared QM2 transatlantic crossing, with status consideration and the only Planetarium at sea, of five orbitals from the d-block, at niche 23, vanadium—

That toggles electrons among its shells, with color changing the highest virtue among spectators, fathomed as turns of fastenings from one of Cristina Iglesia’s Celosías housed in the Carré d'Art of Nîmes the color of vanadinite reddening when cold;

Decrepitates, due to its lead content, when heated—This currency, principally an alloy of copper and tin, as far from the Gallic mint in the British Museum, a coin of the colony with convenient pig trotters forged in place of the living sacrifice, for its veterans were paid in the seven hills of Nîmes, and pointing to a clear

Fiscal disconnect; the challenger already known by his imprint, Caesar divi filius and then, Caesar Imperator, beyond the decisive naval victory at Actium (2 September 31 B.C.E)—The spring with a dark

Lineage; traced by no less than Gaius Julius himself in the seven of eight books he lived (58-49 B.C.E.), the Volcae (VI.24); Arecomici, like many who supplied the war, who were made citizens for their sensible, on-site well and bronze press, arise from beyond the longest river to reach the sea, the Weser; veisa meaning slow-moving to near stagnation in the deep

Parts as the mephitic, algal mist of the swimming pool in the Cévennes, with glimpses of an alien reeling where harbor water and outdone quinqueremes might have churned; the Romans caring not for volatility in itself, but the result—Absolutely,

The crocodile and palm spray’s obverse with Augustus, the laureate, and waning crescent of the man who finished, the general, Agrippa—Absolutely

Stronger, for the dialogue carried on with oneself, and the cohesive splendor of the poison shirt by which Hercules is turned on his head, at last, into a woman—α Herculis, Rasalgethi, or the Head of the Kneeler; replete with titanium and vanadium

Oxides dominating the M stars; limb darkened, and cooling for their full fusion chains—Of deep

Reading; after the Editor of Sartor Resartus (1836), who may have been Jane Carlyle, in custody of Oceans of Hochheimer, a Throat like that of Ophiuchus—The latter is from the thirteenth child of the Zodiac, containing seven Messier globular clusters as Sagittarius; spearheaded by α-Ophiuchi, or Rasalhague, of the physician equally matched by turns of his question, and his own appetite—Reading Keats’s marginalia of from December 1817 and January 1818 assume a reactivation of tuberculosis due to cold,

Or rather, vitamin D deficiency, for the underlined, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge, / In the Artic sky (II.709-710) might have been meteor showers from the 23rd largest constellation, Serpens, calumniating Northern skies in July, and pieced by its head and tail as any traumatic birth—Little Bear, in clear

Noncooperation; or is it incapacity, of their principal investigation, has yet to qualify the twelve Bayer constellations supplementing the Almagest, from the South, which encompasses a menagerie—Dark

Workings of the ophis into the symbolic loss, the omphale at Delphi, until all are indebted to the steward’s impeccable fans in their dark

Coffees, in the fashion of Goethe’s Italian Journey (1786-1788) for which Edith Wharton and her consort boarded the steamer, Vanadís (1888)—Absolutely,

There was no wall of water, only a duct in the hot and cold partitioning of sea air, and there they understood the Sasanian reverence for fire; for ritual use, core-molded ointment jars with sulfur impurities later applied to glance the blue feathers in Sun—Followed by a showing of Truffaut’s first real film, Les Mistons (1957) in the Arène Edith won't visit during the day with its live shows—For the reek of iron and sulfur of blood globins, from the same uncombined flocculent of calderas melting marginally above boiling water of their baths synthesized by stars exceeding ten solar masses—Clear

Of patrons, at perhaps at the advent of the Perseids, she might reconsider—Little Bear digresses on what he had learned of the five stars of the Southern Ara, the majority of which are blue-white sequins on the lace-patterned brocade (lacrocade) of the Milky Way; the Thymiaterion, or a censer, and dedicated after the Titanomachy, for it was the Ara of Hercules before the Ara of Peace (13 B.C.E.)—In the better applications of futurity, the contact process forces sulfur trioxide onto the vanadium

oxide (V2O5) catalyst; otherwise fuming and uncollectable, for sulfuric acid depressing the freezing point on Europa, and allowing for the possibility of sub-surface oceans—Arrival is the month of Sextilis; before August 13, 8 B.C.E., when martial sects and below were devoted to the high priestess, the Aventine Diana, along with the immortal laborer, a Golden Hercules of the open-air cattle market, from the Forum Boarium, reputed for its first gladiatorial contests of the abattoir; between birth's most savage incidents of a plebeian or patrician woman’s existence and the fixed odds of the Empire’s unruly detainees—Rome thus planted itself in Nemausus deep

In the hexastyle of the Maison Carrée emptied of its six Vestales, where Augustine monks sometime quartered; echo their teacher from Hippo on the rationes causales of the six days of Creation, himself affected by the original sin of misreading, as the asterism Pavo, the green peacock of the Indies, is included in the text, but missing in Bayer’s labels—The master of cold

Glassware and crockery, Velázquez observed many galleys opening at dawn, among baskets of wet linen to be hung after being lapped in waters too cold

For elvers to rove up the rivers, and to be served as angulas—Las Hilanderas (1655-60) surrounds such priestesses, of Boaz and Jachin, whose mundane instructions for reconstruction of the Temple were now the woolen fiber, in their dark

Atelier over the drama, which the Pope, whose first injunction is heed the uniform, in the marketplace orders the workers onto higher prerogatives unless the marble fascia panels with bronze nails, the tapestry panels not entrusted to women, fall; all voiced from the Latin of Ovid (VI.129)—Deep

Into the hereto unmade emblems, just before the matron cast as Athena sees paternal impropriety fed back to her, a spinner imitating the Sun in its revolutions is swept out, as a household spider—Edith

exclaims, Apus, the bird of Paradise, is without feet; Fernão de Magalhães, who sent back their skins, although their salt-cured feet were received in a separate chest; to the eyes of Europeans, their toy splendor made landing absolutely

Superfluous (1522)—Matisse, often overcome by heat and limping, absorbs the beat-bark cloths of Papeete (1930), and took every available boat’s itinerary for blue-lipped giant clams, or bénitiers, undulating midnight blue at the bottom of clear

Lagoons, where perhaps sighting a speared dorade, or dolphinfish; Dorado, with Volans, the flying fish, enclosing the stellar nursery, the Large Magellanic Cloud, gleaming in its last throes, fixed his notion for the miniature golden carp kept indefinitely in glass aquariums that seemingly coincided with the founding of Portuguese colony, Macao (1557)—Six-banded sea kraits, so deadly and docile, as they were known, Waterslang, for the triangle of Hydrus following β-Hydri to the line of the Southern Cross due south to the 50th parallel of the Antarctic—For many, which is the subconscious, where it is agreed, Wynn Bullock’s frozen Point Lobos Tidal Pool (1957) is a starmap of sorts—A siphon through which the water enters and exits, as the distressingly unbidden fluidity Matisse found in his portrait of a boy, then revealed so much accomplished after staggering effort, in the slow viewing of Campaux’s 1946 film, after the swirling that could be a tunicate, with its microphotographed spicules as stars, incorporating the transition element, vanadium

Dissolved in the +5 oxidation state (V(V))—As the first slung lines of the first seven words and 28 letters, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, combine into fifty, the root of water, where the part-breviary, part-bestiary pages are laid side-by-side form Polynésie, La Mer (1946)—Vanadium,

Pale blue in solution, and concentrated at solstice in stories sped by Amantia muscaris around their hearth fires, of a charioteer aloft in the cloak of his martyrdom, red and white, lead by a herd descended from Eikthyrnir, the hart of the World Tree, which some seafaring Vikings saw as Ursa Major on cold,

Transparent nights at sea, with the forepaw the purple Iota Ursae Majoris, Talitha, who gets up, as if from a dream—Little Bear turns to the page, after he had switched on the underwater lights, which made the water look like turquoise milk. And there under the milk was something very large, something coiled into two intertwined figures of eight (95) for the organometallic eight-coordinated amavadin bonded to vanadium IV, with electrons resonating above and below—Clearly,

this concentration is no less revenant for Edith; instead, she reminds him he is forgetting the mosaic dolphin at the bottom of the pool, which the Greeks thought the closest to humans, and womb of the sky—Darkening,

With essentials of her life, from the 38 poems of Alejandra Pizarnik, whom Julio Cortázar found in each the cube of an enormous wheel,  […] Ella es / su espejo incendiado, su espera en hogueras frías, su / elemento místico or her own blazing / mirror, her spare for the cold bonfires, her mystical / element (1962), and although he is thinking of Edith, who bonds the  moon-silver of Arbor Dianae, they are both deeply

Pleased to find in the anticipated Nîmois bath of Artemis, a former library, as James Wright, contemplating the beginning of one vine leaf there (The New Yorker, January 14, 1980)—From the absolutely

Conjured eel of the retiarii of Roman bloodsport, their steps began with Emilio Prini’s lead paperweights of Weight Driven Actions (1967-1968), remembering as High Priestess (II) to the Chariot (VII) Elizabeth Bishop’s toucans, absolutely containing vanadium,

In traced fictions—For 47 Tucanae, a bright second star cluster to Omega Centaurus, or ω-Centaurus, for the Southern constellation of Chiron Ptolemy remarked Quae est in principio scapulae (150 C.E.) on the horse's back, […] that reads Cirque d’Hiver (The New Yorker, January 20, 1940), walking through blue-glass flurries colored by Paris Spleen, from the arena where Degas sketched […] along the little pole / that pierces both her body and her soul / and goes through his, and reappears below, dark clear

Phoenix, of which the brightest star, Ankaa (2004) is the shining bottom of a boat, and splendid as the nef automaton from Augsburg, in the cabinet of Rudolf II, where Tycho Brahe’s successor, Kepler despaired of matching in dexterity—Until the preceding November; the essence of the scorpion, his calculations clearly established, as the Crane and the Chamaeleon to the celestial atlas, as tags for another day, the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter as found by the Magi at the Nativity—Spontaneous rise of his star, in the left heel of Ophiuchus, Sagittarius cusp, a supernova (October 1604) rarely seen in the dark-illuminated up-to-the-minute days

Despite their cold wisdom, Edith and Little Bear deeply traverse now, where they see their future selves, in the silver gelatin prints of algae-flamed cypresses of the Big Sur coast, on Lace Lichen Path of Point Lobos a drive from the fogged bridge with pilings of Moss Landing, Offshore (1970)—