![]() ![]() Also, spawning salmon are typically said to be “running” upriver, and in some places this is called a “run” named after the river in question, for instance the “Columbia River Run.” Also, as Guy Davenport notes in Every Force Evolves a Form, French riverain, “riverside,” is “a quotation from Napoleon’s will,” “asking that he be buried near the banks of the Seine, as he is, in the Invalides church.” Much of the last page of FW, leading to this first word, is based on the finale of A Royal Divorce: the dying Josephine, in France, telepathically addressing the simultaneously dying Napoleon, on St. As an Anglican dean, Jonathan Swift would have been addressed as "Reverend," or some version.) Also, “river run:” a pre- FW term meaning either the natural course of a river or of a voyage taken on it. (Some other candidates: French reverrons (we’ll see, or meet, again) French r ê vrons (we will dream) German erinnerung (memory: echoing “mememormee” (628.14)) “Reverend,” in some versions the beginning of the FW letter. river: French for “to join.” FW is a book of “Doublends Jined” (20.16).
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