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Petrified Song.

01-Feb-11

Jamay A strange couplet quoted by Kerouac and ascribed to Mountain Man Jim Bridger: “I saw a petrified bird in a petrified tree, Singing his petrified song.” It reminds me of the parody of Vergil – the complete text of which I cannot find – by Charles Perrault.  It is quoted by Dostoevsky in the The […]