
Xray
has 10 versions
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.
Published by 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.
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.
This fragment is a manuscript version of Freytag-Loringhoven's compilation poem "Ostentatious: Westward: Eastward: Agog."
X - RAYS..
X - RAY
NATURE INTENDS
NATURE INTENDS
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE RADIO'S
SOIL SECRET
SOIL
SUN MESSAGE
BECAUSE OF RADIO
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
WITH INDEFATIGEABLE RUBB AGAINST PRIMITIVE
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
FATE FLURY ONTO SPIRIT PRESS
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
Cosmic hand's dynamic gang
POLISH - Polish -
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE This added span, from "Polishing brass knockers .
. . to civilizations progress" appears on the manuscript before
the frist line "Nature intends . . ."
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
FOR CIVILISATIONS
NATURE
LORD CONTRA CHAOS.RADIANCEOUR DESTINY
E.V.F.L
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
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This fragment is a manuscript version of Freytag-Loringhoven's compilation poem "Ostentatious: Westward: Eastward: Agog."
X - RAYS..
X - RAY
NATURE INTENDS
NATURE INTENDS
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE RADIO'S
SOIL SECRET
SOIL
SUN MESSAGE
BECAUSE OF RADIO
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
WITH INDEFATIGEABLE RUBB AGAINST PRIMITIVE
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
FATE FLURY ONTO SPIRIT PRESS
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
Cosmic hand's dynamic gang
POLISH - Polish -
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE This added span, from "Polishing brass knockers .
. . to civilizations progress" appears on the manuscript before
the frist line "Nature intends . . ."
Alternate spelling: PEOPLE
FOR CIVILISATIONS
NATURE
LORD CONTRA CHAOS.RADIANCEOUR DESTINY
E.V.F.L
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
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