Habeas Corpus
From St. Nicholas Versus the Volcano:
“The day begins with Yvonne’s arrival at the Bella Vista bar in Quauhnahuac. From outside she hears Geoffrey’s familiar voice shouting a drunken lecture, this time on the topic of the rule of the Mexican railway that requires that ‘A corpse will be transported by express!’ (Lowry, Under the Volcano).”
In honor of a particular corpse, from last Friday, November 19, here is part of a Log24 entry from that day:
“The meaning of the poem is ‘the full organized body of all the extension and intension that we can find in it.’ “
— Allen Tate
A corpse will be transported by express!
The corpse in question is that of a children’s book illustrator. The following screenshot from today’s online New York Times illustrates both extension and, in light of the Lowry quotation above, intension.
