Variations on a Sentence from Proust
by Jennifer Hayashida

Slow physiognomy is peculiar because it is the model we recognize.

“Great, we find that the new model is what we call a writer.”

We are simply accustomed to a strange model of ideas.

To a very slow writer, the model in our new museum of general talent is great simply because we labeled it “what we are accustomed to.”

Very writer.  Simply labeled “talent.”

To recognize general ideas simply because we are accustomed to talent is new and strange.

In a museum, a writer labeled ideas “slow” and “very” to recognize a model of strange talent.

That new physiognomy: strange.  In it we recognize a resemblance to the general.

Call a new writer.  It is great.

We can find what we are accustomed to in the Great Writer Museum.

The general is slow and strange, a great talent, but no resemblance to the model we are accustomed to.

The writer is no model of peculiar talent simply because of strange physiognomy.

That which is great is what we can find.

Ideas of our talent are peculiar because we are no model of that which is new.

Physiognomy is labeled the model of the slow and the strange.

We are in a new museum of that great and strange talent:  resemblance.

Other poems by Jennifer Hayashida in ActionYes #3:
Kafka's Diaries: 1919
Two Men