Of Archives and Poetry
Doubletree Club Hotel Boston Bayside, Room 535, Boston, Masssachusetts
Today has been a long day. Waking early driving right to the Atlantic (Boston Harbor). Giving a workshop on appraising electronic records. Taking the T to Cambridge and walking around. Buying a quantity if books at the Grolier Poetry Bookshop. Having a leisurely dinner with the poet and former archivist Aaron Tieger. Returning to our hotel.
What sticks with me is how today was about all of my lives, even personal, and that Aaron has lived in many of the worlds I have. More on this once I've had some sleep, then I'll finish thinking about this.
ecr. l'inf.
4 comments:
Geof --- what does ecr. l'inf. mean?
Lynn,
Did you just now notice this?
I don't think so.
Here's how I explained it on October 14th of last year:
At the end of each of my postings for the past almost five years, I have ended with the abbreviation that Voltaire, a man of the intellect, used to end his letters: “ecr. l’inf.” That means “Ecrasons l’infame,” which we can translate as “Let us crush the infamy.” Voltaire meant infamy in general, all the horrors that conspire to rob human life of its honor, its beauty, its haunting dignity. And I meant that as well.
Geof
I've noticed it before but I never asked what it meant and I don't remember reading your earlier explanation of it.
Thanks.
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