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AN UNTELLABLE STORY
A dramatic Confession
THE NINETEEN STATIONS OF SARAPHIC LOVE
James Crittle, a famous pilot of the French Air
Force, later turned university professor, on February 18, 2015, was found dead
in full uniform Rue Montmartre in Paris.
He had used some cyanide to put an end to his life. The French Air Force took
over his funeral in Bordeaux,
but Joseph and Magdalena Seth, two young people who had been his friends up to
three years before when James Crittle stepped out of their life without any
explanation, hearing the news on the radio decided to claim his body since he
had no known direct relatives.
They are entrusted then with an important
envelope addressed to them and that contains the manuscript of this “Untellable
Story” and my name and contact. I had been James Crittle’s friend some fifty
years earlier when I was going to the university and met him then. He had
obviously kept track of me over these years.
I here try to give you his confession, since he
calls it a confession, about his first twenty years in this life and I just try
to put, as far as I can, this text into perspective with an introduction.
Joseph and Magdalena Seth added a short conclusion. Most of the pictures and
illustrations were in the initial envelope. We decided to use them, with some
prudence though because some of the people on these pictures are totally
unknown to us and they were not identified.
We also retained some documents from East Germany and the USA and his military papers,
considering they had nothing to do with this “Untellable Story.”
Jacques
COULARDEAU
Olliergues,
France
March
14, 2015
Format : Format
Kindle
Nombre
de pages de l'édition imprimée : 201 pages
Utilisation simultanée de
l'appareil : Illimité
Editeur : Editions
La Dondaine; Édition : 1 (13 mars 2015)
Vendu
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Langue : Anglais
ASIN: B00UP4CX88
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Percutio
EXCERPTS
Crucified Nightmare 1 to 12, + two poems inspired by
Hildegard von Bingen [Kyrie
Eleison (Coutras, Eglise Saint Jean Baptiste) & You need eternity (Bordeaux, Basilique Saint
Seurin)]
Excerpted
from An
Untellable Story, a dramatic confession, The Nineteen Stations of Saraphic Love,
Amazon Kindle 13 mars 2015, in
Percutio
N°9,
2015,
Bill Direen, ed., Editions de Titus, Dunedin, New
Zealand,
by Jacques Coulardeau in 2015.
AN OPINION
A certain 'Je ne sais quoi'
— Percutio with JAAM
It comes
from the Deep South of Aotearoa-New Zealand, where it seems so many distinctive
poets reign, but it resides in France.
It comes out irregularly. It features a bewildering array of
internationally-based contributors, ranging from 'conventional' poets through
to off-the-wall experimentalists. For example, Jacques Coulardeau who,
'has contributed to Percutio almost since its inception. He is
a very interesting outsider on the French 'scene'. He researches what he wants
to, but has a strong interest in US politics and European music'. I -
Rapatahana - can only wonder as regards the existential je ne sais quoi of an outsider
in outsider France, home of Camus, who lent this title, of course, to Colin
Wilson...such are the interesting personages found in this publication.
Indeed, William Direen, head sherang at Percutio and
a particularly interesting character himself, points out further about Jacques,
'He was recommended to me by Université Paris Dauphine, who saw in him a
renegade academic, and could not find a place for him within existing structures'!
Percutio is the
brainchild of Direen. He writes, 'The magazine began when I realised that many
of the people I visited when I was overseas were writing, and they were
unpublished. They were often my friends and their writing was of a high
standard. They were also constructively bridging cultures. Building bridges
(poetic) rather than walls (polemic), and describing reality rather than
blowing their own trumpets. That's where it came from.' For William there has
always been a financial struggle to produce a finished product- 'It has been a
passion and not a job.'
He
continues, 'You are probably aware that Percutio is not funded
nor supported in any way by any national institution. It is registered as a
periodical in France, and for the moment we have simply continued with that,
editing, crediting , and giving writer bios in French...Significant French
influence on NZ culture has gone largely undocumented...Percutio also published
writing by German writers, and really, there is no editorial swing one way or
the other. We also had articles on Sri Lanka and travel writing...'
Even
gaining distribution channels for the annual issue, has always been difficult,
'Until last year it was distributed in New Zealand by the time-honoured
means of passing around contributor copies or copies purchased online. In France,
however, people have been more supportive, with some support from individuals.'
Reiterates William, ' It has never managed to recoup all the costs
involved, but it is not a money-exercise. It is something I felt I had the
qualifications to do, as an English graduate and experienced editor; I was in
the ideal position to realise the project (travelling fairly often and meeting
unpublished, often neglected, and marvellous, writers and artists). With a poetry
magazine, someone has to foot the bill, but I have been pleasantly surprised
each year by material assistance from unexpected quarters.'
Direen
continues in this surprised mode, 'This year, Atuanui Press/Titus
Books in Auckland (chief practical collaborator and serious business
partner for Percutio) have undertaken to present it to bookshops the length of
NZ, and this has meant that it is, for the first time, being offered to people
outside the circles of the contributors. i.e. the "book-buying public"
(which is, of course, is its own information system with it own standards and
industry ethics). I'm very happy about this.'
He has
quite definite views (about many things, actually) but most especially
regarding poetry within his home country of Aotearoa-New Zealand, 'Published
Novazelandian/Aotearoan poetry I have had the pleasure to read seems to me to
have been strongly influenced by contemporaneous economic philosophies. I do
think that more than ever NZ poets need affordable access to literature, and
they have to be able to read it in places where they can think about the
content. So printed books (or, eventually, fully evolved electronic books)
should be available for sale or sharing, and libraries need to acquire works
that may seem to defy market-driven logic. This is very important for poets in
the most isolated country in the world. Literature frees the mind. The lack of
it may stultify and turn us into economic slaves.' And to conclude, Direen
states, 'What would I like to see? More of the good, and less of the
terrible...Percutio does carry a lot of daring work, but , as
mentioned, isn't that what poetry is? Isn't that what literature should be...too
much poetry, particularly on the web, is really a nice layout on the page for
ideas that might be better expressed in prose, and especially in journalism. In
fact, for the most part, it IS prose.'
I
conclude this summary of this interesting poetry publication with work from
Direen, himself also a well-known musician, including being in The Bilders with
Brett Cross. It is an extract from a longer poem called 'Centre'. It is
a reminiscence of Wellington,
when Direen attended a course in Electronic Music run by Douglas Lilburn.
But recall light things
... Lilburn in The Glen ... cicadas,
His studio an analog of the
Garden.
I saw him listening and heard
Welcoming and thereafter
Waves noise sense-syllabics inflected by natural context,
Death, sun and leaf, growth and predation,
And such desperate clausal anomalies as our verbal selves
Our adventurous ones self-imperilled
Purchasing disturbances
Of optic and audio messaging
paths.
(NB.
Direen believes that, 'I think this issue P2015 will be the last issue of Percutio...I
doubt I will have the time or money to edit it next year...')
Cover
photo credits are due to: David McKenzie - 2015; Catherine James - 2012; Nigel
Bunn - 2008; Arno Loeffler - 2007. William Direen was happier to have these
here, rather than his own visage.
☼♀♂☼
Percutio & The Nineteen
Stations of Saraphic Love
Abstract:
Parcutio It features a bewildering array of
internationally-based contributors, ranging from 'conventional' poets through
to off-the-wall experimentalists. For example, Jacques Coulardeau who, 'has
contributed to Percutio almost since its inception. He is a very interesting
outsider on the French 'scene'. He researches what he wants to, but has a
strong interest in US politics and European music'. I - Rapatahana - can only
wonder as regards the existential je ne sais quoi of an outsider in outsider
France, home of Camus, who lent this title, of course, to Colin Wilson...such
are the interesting personages found in this publication.
« James Crittle, a famous pilot of the French Air Force, later turned
university professor, on February 18, 2015, was found dead in full uniform Rue
Montmartre in Paris.
He had used some cyanide to put an end to his life. The French Air Force took
over his funeral in Bordeaux,
but Joseph and Magdalena Seth, two young people who had been his friends up to
three years before when James Crittle stepped out of their life without any
explanation, hearing the news on the radio decided to claim his body since he
had no known direct relatives.
They are entrusted then with an important envelope
addressed to them and that contains the manuscript of this “Untellable Story”
and my name and contact. I had been James Crittle’s friend some fifty years
earlier when I was going to the university and met him then. He had obviously
kept track of me over these years. . . »
Research
Interests:
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# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 12:46 PM