"Under the headline 'Notices to Mariners', [Conrad] asserted the futility of literary effort in contrast to the informational precision of reports of the comings and goings of ships, then commonly printed in newspapers." -- The Guardian, 12/1/2007
Eighty-eight homo sapien crossing
the square
at once. Fourteen
heads among them. That is
to say to the view
of the eighty-eighth to
enter, at the moment
she crosses the centroid of
the oblong plaza, fourteen other
souls arise in
constellation, the remainder sketched
only vaguely
and uniformly, the next stratum
up from cobblestone
