Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

Fragment ID: 20348

Knowledge was rebuilt from cells of inference

Into a fixed body flasque and perishable.¹

“Flasque” is a French word meaning “slack”, “loose”, “flaccid” etc. I have more than once tried to thrust in a French word like this, for instance, “A harlot empress in a bouge” – somewhat after the manner of Eliot and Ezra Pound.

1946

¹ P. 267.

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