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Aubeterre:

It is on the hill rd. to Aubeterre that the fortress Chalais first shows the strength & the variety, from the height one fells the caged battlements.
     After yesterday’s rain she is set squarely into the heavy clouds, and the tip of the tallest poplars come just flush with the base of the wall, for all the reparations of the XVIII century, the strength of the position sill communicates itself by the sense of crouch & spring in the masonry.
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     The route to Aubeterre may be properly termed walking. The rd. takes the height suddenly with patches of wheat green, tawn grey & yellow-green, you about you, with what purples & purple-greys beside you.
     There is a certain sociability of clouds when the horizon seems lower than we are. Thus to a ruined villa with a church-like barn.

Ezra Pound, Walking Tour in Southern France, New Directions Books, 1992, 11.

J.R. CARPENTER
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