{"id":13811,"date":"2017-07-22T16:41:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T21:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=13811"},"modified":"2017-07-31T23:03:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T04:03:06","slug":"au-hasard-balthazar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/13811","title":{"rendered":"Au Hasard Balthazar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014<\/em>a film by Robert Bresson; 1966\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Donkey\u2019s Treatise<\/em><\/p>\n

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That my welts could be abstracted was the first offense.<\/p>\n

Come down into the pen<\/em>, one owner whispered, to the signature of the whip\u2014<\/p>\n

as if form & content were not inter-<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dependent. Or the egg<\/p>\n

goiter that rose, like a closed eye, between my lower right ribs where<\/p>\n

another one had kicked,<\/p>\n

as if punting a pumpkin<\/p>\n

through the French country light. Frame by frame, the triumphs<\/p>\n

of my sufferings\u2014a parable of purity<\/em>, a messianic lesson <\/em><\/p>\n

in transcendence<\/em>, some said: my noble acceptance<\/em> of cruel motivations beyond<\/p>\n

my comprehension . . .<\/p>\n

But to walk along in front of death, blood-<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 oranges & eyelid\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 figs<\/p>\n

in crates on my back; no hands; no music<\/p>\n

but squeaking harness straps that dug in me a trench like a trench<\/p>\n

I watched one of the bastards pour entrails in, hoping they\u2019d make the sea\u2014<\/p>\n

how my dreaming, to them, would\u2019ve been<\/p>\n

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a kill-site, not knowing what it\u2019s seen. So much pink.<\/p>\n

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———————–<\/p>\n

Notes: \u201cbut to walk along in front of death, no hands, no music\u201d<\/em> is taken from Twain\u2019s Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.<\/em><\/p>\n

“as if form and content were not interdependent \u00a0<\/em>is borrowed from Justin Kishbaugh.”<\/p>\n

BRIAN TIERNEY<\/a><\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2014a film by Robert Bresson; 1966\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0   \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Donkey\u2019s Treatise     That my welts could be abstracted was the first offense. Come down into the pen, one owner whispered, to the signature of the whip\u2014 as if form & content were not inter- \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 dependent. Or the egg goiter that rose, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[53],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-3AL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13811"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13975,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13811\/revisions\/13975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}