Here human energy is a matter of private voyage, there it's a whirling social ceremony, and there it's about the irrepressible brio of, it seems, the collective subconscious.
The Cantos are the logbook of Pound's own private voyage through Greek mythology, ancient China and Egypt, Byzantium, Renaissance Italy, the works of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and many other periods and subjects, including economics and banking and the nooks and crannies of his own memory and experience.
In order to preserve the government's monopolistic control of foreign contacts and trade and, at least in part, to keep the Chinese people from being contaminated by barbarian customs, the Ming rulers prohibited private dealings between Chinese and foreigners and forbade any private voyaging abroad.
As the New York Times points out, because the community is a private residence, Voyage doesn't need to comply with the whims of regulators, which means it can try out new things without anyone finding out.
And though the roads are used like public ones, they're private, which gives Voyage leeway in terms of how much information about its testing it has to disclose to public entities and regulators.
But after a year, Mr. Stringer's maiden voyage into the private sector was in disarray, mired in bankruptcy and an acrimonious dispute with the landlord, records show.
From 1743 to the founding of the Russian-American Company in 1799, over 100 private fur-trading and hunting voyages sailed from Kamchatka to North America.
To Lane, last week's accidents were "eerily reminiscent" of the kinds of travails that befell explorers like Raleigh who funded their voyages almost exclusively through private financing.
"But then we made a programme about what we do in our private life," he says, laughing, referring to The Voyages of the Princess Matilda on BBC4.
In the 1970s and 80s, he issued various collections of verse through small private presses, and, in due course, a larger volume - Voyaging Portraits (1988) with New Directions Press.
Travel diaries he wrote during a months-long voyage in the 1920s reveal that in his private moments, the Nobel-winning physicist portrayed people of other races, such as Chinese and Indians, in a stereotypical, dehumanizing way.
