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From Rimbaud, ‘Les Illuminations’, 1873
Depart
Assez vu. La vision s’est rencontree a tous les airs.
Asses eu. Rumeurs de ville, le soir at au soleil et toujours.
Assez connu. Les arrets de la vie. – O Rumeurs et Visions.
Depart dans l’affection and le bruit neufs.
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Depart
Seen enough. The vision can be had on any street corner.
Had enough. The endless gossip of the city, at dawn, at dusk.
Known enough. The pauses of life , the rumours and fantasy.
Depart into a new sound and a new tenderness.
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1971