descending at...

The line presumably refers to Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. In the first draft the line read "And Triton blew his wrinkled shell." against which Pound wrote "if you 'hotel' this rhythm shd be weighted a bit, I think."

reference topics

Burbank and The Beautiful Dream
Interpretation of Dreams
the first draft  
discussion of Burbank and Bleistein
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