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Xray

by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Original Source

Encoded documents and images are derived from manuscripts in the Papers of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven in Special Collections at the University of Maryland, College Park, Libraries. In addition, individual pages or leaves of manuscripts are identified by the corresponding reel and frame numbers of the microfilm edition of the Freytag-Lorinhoven Papers.

The one printed version of Xray appeared in transition 7 (October 1927): 135.

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    Textual Notes

    Drafts of this poem occupy series 3, box 4, folder 44.

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    This poem and manuscript drafts are available from this site for demonstration purposes only. Though the intellectual property of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven is in the public domain, all annotations and editorial commentary are copyrighted. They may not be reproduced without explicit permission from the copyright holder. For copyright information, please contact Tanya Clement.

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    Line numbers have been included to reflect the numbering across all versions. Thus, some line numbers are missing on versions which do not include all lines within the text.

    X Critical Introduction

    Critical Introduction

    The poem "Xray" was published in transition (October 1927: 134-135). There are ten extant versions (including the published text). Across the versions there are some phrases that remain more or less the same, some that change course and change back, and still others that evolve quite dramatically in a perceptive, linear fashion.

    XWitness
     
    VIVID FALLS
     
    BUGLE SKY
     
    CASTLE CLOUDS
     
    LEAFY LIMBSWISH
     
    WESTWARD
     
    SAXOPHONE DAYS STEELBLAST GALAXY
     
    EASTWARDc
    This fragment is a manuscript version of Freytag-Loringhoven's compilation poem "Ostentatious: Westward: Eastward: Agog."
    X - RAYS..????X-RAY.
    X - RAYRADIO
    NATURE INTENDSINTENDS ??CAUSES CAUSES BRASS TO CORODE OXIDIZE - Nature causes brass to oxidize PEOPLE POLISH WITH INDEFATIGABLE RUB AGAINST PRIMITIVE COROSION
    NATURE INTENDS                INTENDS CAUSES CAUSES NATURE CAUSES POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    TO
    AMASS - - -AMASS CONGEST CONGEST - People to congest -
    POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    KILL
    WITH INDEFATIGABLE
     
    SUNS RADIOINFUSED
    RADIO'S SOIL SECRET
    SUN MESSAGE
    PENETR SUNIMPREGNATED
    SOIL
    BECAUSE OF RADIO BECAUSE OF RADIO - LATENTLATENTDORMANT DORMANT IDEAL OF BRILLIANCY -BRILLIANCYDORMANT WITHIN SOIL FOR PROGRESS' DUMB BY DULL RADIOPENETRATED SOIL By dull-radiopenetrated soil
     
    BRILLIANCY LUXURY LUXURY ?? ARISTOCRACY - ORNAMENT - ARISTOCRACY - ASPIRATION -?? SUNSHINESUNSHINE
     
    POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    POLISH
     
    ARISTOCRACYSUN SHINE - ASPIRATION - - - - -CAUSES PENETRATES FORCES STIMULATES CAUSESFORCES
     
    SHINE
     
    COSMIC HAND'S
     
    DYNAMIC CROWD
    WITH INDEFATIGEABLE RUBB AGAINST PRIMITIVE PRIMITIVEPRIMITIVE COROSION - DESTINNED Destined
     
    POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    KILL
     
    WITH INDEFATIGEABLE RUBB                           AGAINST PRIMITIVE CROWDING -INDISTINCT ION CROWDINGQUANTITY QUANTITY -
    FATE FLURY ONTO SPIRIT PRESS
     
    CAUSESPOEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    PEOPLE POLISHTHINE
    COSMIC HANDS POLISH - COSMIC HANDS CROWDED DYNAMIC CROWD GANG TO GANG CROWD
    Cosmic hand's dynamic gang
    POLISH - Polish -
    TO POLISH POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
              KILL - .         FASTIDIOUS Kill -
     
    ??POLISHING BRASS KNOCKERS -c
    This added span, from "Polishing brass knockers . . . to civilizations progress" appears on the manuscript before the frist line "Nature intends . . ."
    CKERSBS
     
    KILLING POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    -
     
    CONTINUES
    FOR CIVILISATIONS ADVANCEPROGRESS PROGRESS -BY DESTINY FOR FASTIDIOUS TASTE PALATE LORD For fastidioius BOSS'
    NATURE AG CONTRA NATURE 'S FINISHING FINISHING PROCESS ProgressFOR SHINE LORD CONTRA CHAOSLORD CONTRA CHAOS FOR QUALITYFOR FASTIDIOUS BRILLIANT BOSS' IDEE FIX SUM TOTAL : DIVINE IDÉE FIX Brilliant boss' "idee fixe "
     
    ON SPIRIT PRESS
     
    IN LABORATORY
     
    ON SPIRIT PRESS
     
    OH LORD
    FOR BY | | FOR - | | | BY LORDS FIXED IDEADIOS DIVINEITY'S "IDÉE FIX." FOR FASTIDIOUS DIVINE "IDÉE FIX."OUR DESTINY: RADIANCE SPIRIT RADIANCE SUM TOTAL Sum total :
    LORD CONTRA CHAOS.RADIANCEOUR DESTINY DIVINE IDÉE FIX         Radiance
    E.V.F.L
     
    ALL GOD LORD IS DYNAMIC DESIGNER - FAITHFULL TO MAP OF HIS MIND MINDMAP ONLY
     
    CONSCIENCE IS SONS THRALL TO VIOLENCE
     
    FORCE PRIMITIVE UNJUSTLY
     
    OMNIPOTENCY GRAVELS CONSCIENCE IS TRACES RESULT
     
    ALL IS ENTHRALLED INTOTO BY DYNAMIC OMNIPOTENCY GRAVELS
     
    ELECTRIC ROUTINE.
     
    CONSCIENCE IS LIES BEYOND RECKONING IN
     
    COSMIC BRAINS SUM TOTAL OF
    IDEAL OF PERFECTIONc
    The following excerpt is a manuscript version of Freytag-Loringhoven's poem "Christ - Don Quixote - St. George." This poem is part of a larger compilation of poems called "Contradictory Speculations on My Own Hook's Fallibility".
    HOW CAME CONCEPTION OF CHIVALRY INTO CHRIST FIRST DON QUIXOTE IN FIGHTINGDEFYING ATTACKING ELEMENTALLY DRIVEN DRIVEN FORCED BRUTAL ROTATING WINDMILL ROTATION OF LORDS BEASTS ACTIVE FORCED - INTO CHIRST DON QUIXOTE I. BY SPIRITUAL DESIRE OF ELEMENT SHACKLED LORD BEASTS UNATAINABLE IN MATERIAL DIMENSION SPIRIT LORD IS IN CHRIST - ALL HIS DISCIPLES ARE ARE COMPROMISED USED FOR DIGESTION ON EARTH ?? DEVOURED BY BEASTS LORD BEAST LORD BEASTS DEPENDANCE ON ENTRAILS VITALS MATTER STOMACH ELEMENTAL VITALS TO BE DEVOURED HE MUST EAT. HERE IS LORDGOD BODY LORD - CRUCIFYING DESTROYINGHAZING PITYING DON QUIXOTE BUT REMOVAL OF ENTRAILSDIGESTING VITALS IS FOR ??LORDS PERFECTION BENEFIT DON QUIXOTES RISE TO FIRM ESTATE POOR PESTERED LORD - ELEMENT THRALL LORD OFBY THY HAS NEED THINE HIS COMPROMISED BARBARIL TO HIS CREATIONS?? MEDIUMS NECESSITY BUT THY MESSAGE IS HEARD - THY SIGN IS BEHELD THEY OMNIPOTENCY PLENISHED BY BEASTS APPETITE BECOMES VOLUMINOUS MORE CONFIDENTLY THY DON QUIXOTERY GROWINGS ASCENDANCY WITH THY ASSEMBLEDSPIRITS HEROES ASSEMBLAGE - IS RECOGNIZE WE HELP THEE FIGHTING BEASTLY WITH BEAST PURPOSE IN CONSCIOUS - GLORY NESS FOR GLORY FOR THY REDEMPTION
    XWitness
     
    VIVID FALLS
     
    BUGLE SKY
     
    CASTLE CLOUDS
     
    LEAFY LIMBSWISH
     
    WESTWARD
     
    SAXOPHONE DAYS STEELBLAST GALAXY
     
    EASTWARDc
    This fragment is a manuscript version of Freytag-Loringhoven's compilation poem "Ostentatious: Westward: Eastward: Agog."
    X - RAYS..????X-RAY.
    X - RAYRADIO
    NATURE INTENDSINTENDS ??CAUSES CAUSES BRASS TO CORODE OXIDIZE - Nature causes brass to oxidize PEOPLE POLISH WITH INDEFATIGABLE RUB AGAINST PRIMITIVE COROSION
    NATURE INTENDS                INTENDS CAUSES CAUSES NATURE CAUSES POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    TO
    AMASS - - -AMASS CONGEST CONGEST - People to congest -
    POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    KILL
    WITH INDEFATIGABLE
     
    SUNS RADIOINFUSED
    RADIO'S SOIL SECRET
    SUN MESSAGE
    PENETR SUNIMPREGNATED
    SOIL
    BECAUSE OF RADIO BECAUSE OF RADIO - LATENTLATENTDORMANT DORMANT IDEAL OF BRILLIANCY -BRILLIANCYDORMANT WITHIN SOIL FOR PROGRESS' DUMB BY DULL RADIOPENETRATED SOIL By dull-radiopenetrated soil
     
    BRILLIANCY LUXURY LUXURY ?? ARISTOCRACY - ORNAMENT - ARISTOCRACY - ASPIRATION -?? SUNSHINESUNSHINE
     
    POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    POLISH
     
    ARISTOCRACYSUN SHINE - ASPIRATION - - - - -CAUSES PENETRATES FORCES STIMULATES CAUSESFORCES
     
    SHINE
     
    COSMIC HAND'S
     
    DYNAMIC CROWD
    WITH INDEFATIGEABLE RUBB AGAINST PRIMITIVE PRIMITIVEPRIMITIVE COROSION - DESTINNED Destined
     
    POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    KILL
     
    WITH INDEFATIGEABLE RUBB                           AGAINST PRIMITIVE CROWDING -INDISTINCT ION CROWDINGQUANTITY QUANTITY -
    FATE FLURY ONTO SPIRIT PRESS
     
    CAUSESPOEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    PEOPLE POLISHTHINE
    COSMIC HANDS POLISH - COSMIC HANDS CROWDED DYNAMIC CROWD GANG TO GANG CROWD
    Cosmic hand's dynamic gang
    POLISH - Polish -
    TO POLISH POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
              KILL - .         FASTIDIOUS Kill -
     
    ??POLISHING BRASS KNOCKERS -c
    This added span, from "Polishing brass knockers . . . to civilizations progress" appears on the manuscript before the frist line "Nature intends . . ."
    CKERSBS
     
    KILLING POEPLE
    Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
    -
     
    CONTINUES
    FOR CIVILISATIONS ADVANCEPROGRESS PROGRESS -BY DESTINY FOR FASTIDIOUS TASTE PALATE LORD For fastidioius BOSS'
    NATURE AG CONTRA NATURE 'S FINISHING FINISHING PROCESS ProgressFOR SHINE LORD CONTRA CHAOSLORD CONTRA CHAOS FOR QUALITYFOR FASTIDIOUS BRILLIANT BOSS' IDEE FIX SUM TOTAL : DIVINE IDÉE FIX Brilliant boss' "idee fixe "
     
    ON SPIRIT PRESS
     
    IN LABORATORY
     
    ON SPIRIT PRESS
     
    OH LORD
    FOR BY | | FOR - | | | BY LORDS FIXED IDEADIOS DIVINEITY'S "IDÉE FIX." FOR FASTIDIOUS DIVINE "IDÉE FIX."OUR DESTINY: RADIANCE SPIRIT RADIANCE SUM TOTAL Sum total :
    LORD CONTRA CHAOS.RADIANCEOUR DESTINY DIVINE IDÉE FIX         Radiance
    E.V.F.L
     
    ALL GOD LORD IS DYNAMIC DESIGNER - FAITHFULL TO MAP OF HIS MIND MINDMAP ONLY
     
    CONSCIENCE IS SONS THRALL TO VIOLENCE
     
    FORCE PRIMITIVE UNJUSTLY
     
    OMNIPOTENCY GRAVELS CONSCIENCE IS TRACES RESULT
     
    ALL IS ENTHRALLED INTOTO BY DYNAMIC OMNIPOTENCY GRAVELS
     
    ELECTRIC ROUTINE.
     
    CONSCIENCE IS LIES BEYOND RECKONING IN
     
    COSMIC BRAINS SUM TOTAL OF
    IDEAL OF PERFECTIONc
    The following excerpt is a manuscript version of Freytag-Loringhoven's poem "Christ - Don Quixote - St. George." This poem is part of a larger compilation of poems called "Contradictory Speculations on My Own Hook's Fallibility".
    HOW CAME CONCEPTION OF CHIVALRY INTO CHRIST FIRST DON QUIXOTE IN FIGHTINGDEFYING ATTACKING ELEMENTALLY DRIVEN DRIVEN FORCED BRUTAL ROTATING WINDMILL ROTATION OF LORDS BEASTS ACTIVE FORCED - INTO CHIRST DON QUIXOTE I. BY SPIRITUAL DESIRE OF ELEMENT SHACKLED LORD BEASTS UNATAINABLE IN MATERIAL DIMENSION SPIRIT LORD IS IN CHRIST - ALL HIS DISCIPLES ARE ARE COMPROMISED USED FOR DIGESTION ON EARTH ?? DEVOURED BY BEASTS LORD BEAST LORD BEASTS DEPENDANCE ON ENTRAILS VITALS MATTER STOMACH ELEMENTAL VITALS TO BE DEVOURED HE MUST EAT. HERE IS LORDGOD BODY LORD - CRUCIFYING DESTROYINGHAZING PITYING DON QUIXOTE BUT REMOVAL OF ENTRAILSDIGESTING VITALS IS FOR ??LORDS PERFECTION BENEFIT DON QUIXOTES RISE TO FIRM ESTATE POOR PESTERED LORD - ELEMENT THRALL LORD OFBY THY HAS NEED THINE HIS COMPROMISED BARBARIL TO HIS CREATIONS?? MEDIUMS NECESSITY BUT THY MESSAGE IS HEARD - THY SIGN IS BEHELD THEY OMNIPOTENCY PLENISHED BY BEASTS APPETITE BECOMES VOLUMINOUS MORE CONFIDENTLY THY DON QUIXOTERY GROWINGS ASCENDANCY WITH THY ASSEMBLEDSPIRITS HEROES ASSEMBLAGE - IS RECOGNIZE WE HELP THEE FIGHTING BEASTLY WITH BEAST PURPOSE IN CONSCIOUS - GLORY NESS FOR GLORY FOR THY REDEMPTION

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