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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=410447" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Money</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">An introductory lecture</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>This morning we shall spend a few minutes <br>Upon the study of symbolism, which is basic <br>To the nature of money. I show you this nickel. <br>Icons and cryptograms are written all over <br>The nickel: one side shows a hunchbacked bison <br>Bending his head and curling his tail to accommodate <br>The circular nature of money. Over him arches <br>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and, squinched in <br>Between that and his rump, E PLURIBUS UNUM, <br>A Roman reminiscence that appears to mean <br>An indeterminately large number of things <br>All of which are the same. Under the bison <br>A straight line giving him a ground to stand on <br>Reads FIVE CENTS. And on the other side of our nickel <br>There is the profile of a man with long hair <br>And a couple of feathers in the hair; we know <br>Somehow that he is an American Indian, and <br>He wears the number nineteen-thirty-six. <br>Right in front of his eyes the word LIBERTY, bent <br>To conform with the curve of the rim, appears <br>To be falling out of the sky Y first; the Indian <br>Keeps his eyes downcast and does not notice this; <br>To notice it, indeed, would be shortsighted of him. <br>So much for the iconography of one of our nickels, <br>Which is now becoming a rarity and something of <br>A collectors’ item: for as a matter of fact <br>There is almost nothing you can buy with a nickel, <br>The representative American Indian was destroyed <br>A hundred years or so ago, and his descendants’ <br>Relations with liberty are maintained with reservations, <br>Or primitive concentration camps; while the bison, <br>Except for a few examples kept in cages, <br>Is now extinct. Something like that, I think, <br>Is what Keats must have meant in his celebrated <br>Ode on a Grecian Urn. <br>Notice, in conclusion, <br>A number of circumstances sometimes overlooked <br>Even by experts: (a) Indian and bison, <br>Confined to obverse and reverse of the coin, <br>Can never see each other; they are looking <br>In opposite directions, the bison past <br>The Indian’s feathers, the Indian past <br>The bison’s tail; (c) they are upside down <br>To one another; (d) the bison has a human face <br>Somewhat resembling that of Jupiter Ammon. <br>I hope that our studies today will have shown you <br>Something of the import of symbolism <br>With respect to the understanding of what is symbolized.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Howard+Nemerov">Howard Nemerov</a><div class=q>
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This morning we shall spend a few minutes 
Upon the study of symbolism, which is basic 
To the nature of money. I show you this nickel. 
Icons and cryptograms are written all over 
The nickel: one side shows a hunchbacked..."></div>
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