Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels. And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument. Of insidious intent. To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" ... [They will say: "But how his arms and legs are thin!"] Do I dare. Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time. For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. For I have known them all already, known them all:? ...
Or the ham in a temperance hotel? Does its odour remind one of llamas, Or has it a comforting smell? Is it prickly to touch as a hedge is, Or soft as eiderdown fluff? Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges? ... the forsaken cry, / But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone / As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green / Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen / Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, ...
Wedle etymologii wyrazu nazwa Pałuki wywodziłaby się więc ze starego rdzenia słowiańskiego: błęg/b, ług, łuk, łuh ? oznaczającego podmokłą łąkę lub moczary położone nad zakolem czyli łukiem rzeki albo jeziora. Hipoteza ta wydaje się być b.../b
