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Phantagraph, v. 13, issue 3, March 1945
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-------the phantagraph----------3 Masking my discontent with the facility of winning the sword, I wore it to the banquet that evening. Wine was abundant, so that all the company's speech dulled to babblings, and then to snores--while I, that had not been the least among drinkers, arose from the table, disgusted and sober, and went to my damp and unpleasant room. Others of the charms did I make test of, during my sojourn in the dukedom, and some of these tests concerned wine, and some of these concerned the duchess, and some concerned swordsmanship. And all, of course, came out to my complete satisfaction--I thought, at the time. Tired of uniform success in physical satisfaction, I turned to the making of verses, and there flowed from my pen the trickily interlocked measures of the Provencal duodecina, and the complex harmonies of the Kung T'sui, both Cathayan and of Zipangu, with none of the joyous agony that poets have spoken me about. Disgusted I abandoned the childish craft for more solemn business of grammery. With facility I conjured up the likenesses of vastly distant places, and saw in purple vapours that rise from shining grey chips, whatever I should wish to envision. I made the acquaintance of fabled Eblis, and with him I spoke, and found him unschooled and rude. Briefly, I considered the possibility of using my very evident power in the annulling of the contract I had made, but I considered too, what history might have to say about such double-dealing, and the effect it would have on my relatives-to-be, and abandoned the plan as any
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-------the phantagraph----------3 Masking my discontent with the facility of winning the sword, I wore it to the banquet that evening. Wine was abundant, so that all the company's speech dulled to babblings, and then to snores--while I, that had not been the least among drinkers, arose from the table, disgusted and sober, and went to my damp and unpleasant room. Others of the charms did I make test of, during my sojourn in the dukedom, and some of these tests concerned wine, and some of these concerned the duchess, and some concerned swordsmanship. And all, of course, came out to my complete satisfaction--I thought, at the time. Tired of uniform success in physical satisfaction, I turned to the making of verses, and there flowed from my pen the trickily interlocked measures of the Provencal duodecina, and the complex harmonies of the Kung T'sui, both Cathayan and of Zipangu, with none of the joyous agony that poets have spoken me about. Disgusted I abandoned the childish craft for more solemn business of grammery. With facility I conjured up the likenesses of vastly distant places, and saw in purple vapours that rise from shining grey chips, whatever I should wish to envision. I made the acquaintance of fabled Eblis, and with him I spoke, and found him unschooled and rude. Briefly, I considered the possibility of using my very evident power in the annulling of the contract I had made, but I considered too, what history might have to say about such double-dealing, and the effect it would have on my relatives-to-be, and abandoned the plan as any
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