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"By 2001, when I first made contact with George, I believe all of his published work was out of print..." Part 2. Part 3

"Mixing Rome and the snow in his song" --Mandelshtam (tr R Tracy)

Shibuya-kei is Dead.

"What Sappho conceived on one occasion on Mitylene is gone beyond reconstitution; the sole proof that she ever conceived it is a scrap from a parchment copy made thirteen centuries later; on an upper left-hand corner learning assisted by chemicals makes out a few letters; in Berliner Klassikertexte, V-2, 1907, pp. 14-15, type stands for those letters with perhaps misleading decisiveness:

.Ρ'Α[...
ΔΗΡΑΤ .[...
ΓΟΓ'ΓΥΛΑ .[...

...plus the beginnings of a dozen more lines: very possibly, so modern editions indicate, the irst aorist of the verb to raise (conjecturing ηρ α), and a word unknown, and the name of a girl of Sappho's. Or you can remember from Alcaeus and Ibycus ηρ, the contraction of springtime, and derive the unknown word from δηρος, too long, and write

Spring........
Too long......
Gongula......

heading the little witticism 'Papyrus' and printing it in a book of poems called Lustra as an exemplum for resurrection-men. And wait decades for someoe to unriddle it." --Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (1971)

37 Heaven. (Not to be confused with the magical number 137.)