Uploaded December 2012 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Ezra Pound shared a cottage with W B Yeats.during a period of three years. It seems that he didn't share Yeats' ambition to end up living alone on an island in the middle of a lake. The title refers to Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
nytimes.com/1988/01/10/books/the-odd-couple-pound-and-yeats-together.html
"Volailles" actually means chickens, if we take it literally, but here it means whores. "Poules" is similar and it also means both chickens and whores. There was a delightful film called Irma la Douce with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon set in the seedy part of Paris populated mainly with the Poules, their Mecs and the Flics - meaning the Prostitutes, their Pimps and the Cops. And, if you haven't seen Irma La Douce here it is - just watch the opening few minutes and you'll be hooked - er, yes, "hooked" is appropriate:.
youtube.com/watch?v=2FBGAcIk7Wc
The first tobacconist is in 'Little Britain' - Govenment Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
flickr.com/photos/momalwayslikedmebest/4191676989/in/pool-628223@N21
The second tobacco shop is in Old Town. San Diego, California, USA
terragalleria.com/california/picture.usca34555.html
O GOD, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,
With the little bright boxes piled up neatly upon the shelves
And the loose fragrant cavendish and the shag,
And the bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases,
And a pair of scales not too greasy,
And the volailles dropping in for a word or two in passing,
For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Lend me a little tobacco-shop,
or install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.
Ezra Pound shared a cottage with W B Yeats.during a period of three years. It seems that he didn't share Yeats' ambition to end up living alone on an island in the middle of a lake. The title refers to Yeats' poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
nytimes.com/1988/01/10/books/the-odd-couple-pound-and-yeats-together.html
"Volailles" actually means chickens, if we take it literally, but here it means whores. "Poules" is similar and it also means both chickens and whores. There was a delightful film called Irma la Douce with Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon set in the seedy part of Paris populated mainly with the Poules, their Mecs and the Flics - meaning the Prostitutes, their Pimps and the Cops. And, if you haven't seen Irma La Douce here it is - just watch the opening few minutes and you'll be hooked - er, yes, "hooked" is appropriate:.
youtube.com/watch?v=2FBGAcIk7Wc
The first tobacconist is in 'Little Britain' - Govenment Street, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
flickr.com/photos/momalwayslikedmebest/4191676989/in/pool-628223@N21
The second tobacco shop is in Old Town. San Diego, California, USA
terragalleria.com/california/picture.usca34555.html
O GOD, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,
With the little bright boxes piled up neatly upon the shelves
And the loose fragrant cavendish and the shag,
And the bright Virginia loose under the bright glass cases,
And a pair of scales not too greasy,
And the volailles dropping in for a word or two in passing,
For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Lend me a little tobacco-shop,
or install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.
