Sunday, June 25, 2023

#515: La Saveur des Larmes (c.1938 )


Sinatra offscreen. An Oscar- winning song. Sammy Cahn lyrics. Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant even though Anyone knows an ant can't Move a rubber tree plant. Maybe that's what the caterpillars are singing as they start to demolish the giant synecdoche that towers over the river, over a house full of lights which foreshadows the final work of the painter, over a bridge which seemingly comes from & goes to nowhere. The caterpillars chew away. It is a painstaking task. It is a painful task. One thing dies for another to live. They weep; & hate the bitter flavor of their tears.

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