5. FROM ...

5.

From the aspect of the word Nijinsky

(the rise of the N, the drop of the j,

the leap of the hook on the k and the

fall of the y, graphic form of a name

that seems to be drawing the artist's élan,

with its bounds and rebounds on the boards,

of the jumper who doesn't know which leg

to come down on), he sensed the dancer's

lightness, just as he will one day realize

that Verlaine can only be the name of a

poet-musician.

{Jean Genet, Our Lady of the Flowers}