Alexander Pope described his delight and happiness in finishing the grotto in a letter to his friend Edward Blount in 1725:
I have put the last hand to my works…happily finishing theSubterraneous sWay and Grotto: I then found a spring of the clearest water, which falls in a perpetual Rill, that echoes thru’ the Cavern day and night. …When you shut the Doors of this Grotto, it becomes on the instant, from a luminous Room, a Camera Obscura, on the walls of which all the objects of the River, Hills, Woods, and Boats, are forming a moving Picture…And when you have a mind to light it up, it affords you a very different Scene: it is finished with Shells interspersed with Pieces of Looking-glass in angular Forms…at which when a Lamp…is hung in the Middle, a thousand pointed Rays glitter and are reflected over the place.
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Pope in grotto. A sketch probably by Alexander Kent
A.PoPe (1688 - 1744)
London, Dug!, England
Twickenham, Middlesex (Middle Sex_ hmm
them English and their Middlesex neither
Bisexorathousandtinysexes)__, England IngLand.
the Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem (Part 1)[opening stanza salvo_]
WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things,
I sing -- This Verse to C____, Muse! is due;
This, ev'n Belinda may vouchfafe to view:
Slight is the Subject, but not so the Praise,
If She inspire, and He approve my Lays.
Say what strange Motive, Goddess! cou'd compel
A well-bred Lord t'assault a gentle Belle?
Oh say what stranger Cause, yet unexplor'd,
Cou'd make a gentle Belle reject a Lord? 1.10
And dwells such Rage in softest Bosoms then?
And lodge such daring Souls in Little Men?
Alexander was a tiny fellow_
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down along other parts
Sir Tomas Sidoli has fiddled his 'vacance' into other varigating
lines of flight
onesofprose
a jazzy end of A Road
a jazzy end again, 'gone,
sO in America', a road,
'the land where they let
the children cry'
dean of road studies, father?
what? where art thou dean?
last page last love
is always also the first
first love page
and
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And - Then
Or say
PART I: A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT
PART II: A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG
PART III: A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN
PART IV: A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS
these and other
saying voyage
over therefore
heretofore
hence thence
or melancholy's boob
or her breasts shining in the dark
across eyes
say yes to suck
Road abode in her mouth
sitting by lucky baby
heard her tiny person
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these then of
its mist
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seal envelope
spit the tongue
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get over here
my longdistance number
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hear a halfecho
assonantal rhyme
lu_ver .
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astarboard
Astarte
shes wishing it
int'a his mouth
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wet a page
screeing its hyperbole
of this & those
clacky dime chased
by pickin's and leavin's
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