I always see those first lines in context of wrapping up the paris journal poem:
Tell them you came and saw
sexual inuendo no doubt, JM's version of the sacred femanine metaphor, but it's very - defeatist here "you've beaten me, but I accomplished something right?" also the very good - play on words "veni, vidi, vici" - "I came, I saw, I conquered"
and look'd into my eyes
and saw the shadow
of the guard receding
Thoughts in time
and out of season
Dam I wish I had a clearer idea what this meant. If I could find these metaphors used - somewhere else in a JM poem..
The Hitchhiker stood
by the side of the road
and levelled his thumb
Also with a roman touch: in the colliseum when the defeated's fate was decided with a - levelled thumb that could point up or down
in the calm calculus
of reason.
I always see those first lines in context of wrapping up the paris journal poem:
Tell them you came and saw
sexual inuendo no doubt, JM's version of the sacred femanine metaphor, but it's very - defeatist here "you've beaten me, but I accomplished something right?" also the very good - play on words "veni, vidi, vici" - "I came, I saw, I conquered" and look'd into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding Thoughts in time and out of season Dam I wish I had a clearer idea what this meant. If I could find these metaphors used - somewhere else in a JM poem.. The Hitchhiker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb Also with a roman touch: in the colliseum when the defeated's fate was decided with a - levelled thumb that could point up or down
in the calm calculus of reason.