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Lew Welch<br />

(senza titolo)<br />

Esci fuori sul Pianeta<br />

Disegna un cerchio ampio 100 piedi.<br />

All’interno del cerchio ci sono 300 cose<br />

che nessuno comprende e,<br />

forse, nessuno ha mai visto.<br />

Quante ne sai trovare?<br />

Nato nel 1926 in Arizona, compagno di studi di<br />

Gary Snyder, interessato alla filosofia Zen e<br />

impegnato in battaglie ecologiste, Lewis Welch è<br />

scomparso misteriosamente nel 1972, dopo essersi<br />

allontanato per uno dei suoi frequenti eremitaggi<br />

nella natura. Il breve testo del 1964 compare in<br />

forma autografa, introdotto dal disegno di un<br />

cerchio, nel catalogo Semina Culture (2005).<br />

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Lew Welch<br />

(untitled)<br />

Step out onto the Planet.<br />

Draw a circle 100 feet round.<br />

Inside the circle are 300 things<br />

nobody understands and,<br />

maybe, nobody’s ever seen.<br />

How many can you find?<br />

Lewis Welch was born in 1926 in Arizona and has been study mate of<br />

Gary Snyder. He was into Zen philosophy and the fights for the<br />

environmental causes but mysteriously disappeared in 1972 after<br />

retiring to one of his frequent hermitages into nature. The brief<br />

autographed 1964 text above, introduced by a circles drawing, appears<br />

into the Semina Culture catalog (2005).

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