the notion of being in town:
comers and goers & different layers of the past
(don’t evaporate a layer beneath it)
f i e l d s a n d m e a d o w s f o r s i x h u n d r e d y e a r s
laundry or children playing games
& indecency which shows a woman urinating
1. young man from the province,
a dubious businessman
on the verge of adulthood
2. old and unsuccessful actor,
he seemed to be an advanced alcoholic
about five minutes walk away
a place of mortal dangers…
s p e c t a c u l a r l y o v e r – p o p u l a t e d c o n j u n c t i o n o f s q u a l l o r a n d s u r p r i s i n g l e v e l o f l u x u r y
& indecency which shows a woman urinating
(horrendous)
(one street further west:
more prominent portions)
3. the grandeur of
decayed and damaged men
of a viscious and decadent town
only interested in club dinners
very urban presences: jungle-like, brutal, incomprehensible
that isn’t just what a city is
that is what a city is
cities’ tails:
h u n d r e d s o f c a r t l o a d s o f h u m a n w a s t e
r e t r e a t t o a s u b u r b a n c o t t a g e
Found poetry on ’Literary Studies and the Urban Humanities: ”In Town” with the Serio-Comic Dickens’, a lecture by Jason Finch
VIRPI VAIRINEN 