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Le Corbusier – The poem of the right angle

Le Corbusier –> Handwriting

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Years ago

- while at the first steps of architecture’s promenade -

a friend of mine asked me

‘what is the first name of Le Corbusier’

and i paused.

*Hmm*

I had never thought about it,

so i replied that i knew, but i could not recall.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris,

 chose to be known as:

Le Corbusier,

as he strongly believed

 that anyone could reinvent oneself.

‘Ma réponse - Mon choix’

- as he concludes the above letter.

 His new name was an altered form of

his maternal grandfather’s name:

Lecorbésier *.

Le Corbusier also became a French

citizen at his thirties.

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Today i spent the day

translating my cv in french,

keeping in mind that

this would be not

a Jeanneret’s kind of way,

bearing – on the contrary – the thought

that reinvention may not be my answer

(ma réponse)

but it is a certainly of my choice

(mon choix).

It is always a matter of the right angle.

* Some architectural historians claim that this pseudonym translates as ‘the crow-like’ one.

Sources: Babelfish, Dictionary, Pick-Tureen, Wikipedia.