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tim,
i can see the various personnae ep assumed qua
ego scriptor; but, can't see anything archetypal
...as for example whitman's american adam,
or emerson's jeremiah.
how do you mean ep's "archetypal self"?
another american adam?
bob
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From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:39 AM
Subject: No place of grace
> Bob,
> With his discovery of the archetypal nature of the Self
> Pound progressed from Solipsism into Nature and Creation
> to rediscover 'the green world' thereby completing the circle.
> This universal place of grace he saw threatened
> by the relentless mechanization of human labor
> by the rapacious exploitation of natural resource
> by the endless barrage of soul-less advertisements
> and other projections whose goal was destruction
> of the inner-sanctum
> that we may become insatiable hedonistic consumers
> who show up for work on time
> and pay every tax
> and cheerfully submit our selves to the machine.
>
> Fascism was salvific for Pound for the paradoxical reasons you imply. The
> directed will seemed indeed a manful remedy for the smothering machine.
> Fascism projected an image of the nobility of the artisan versus the
> dehumanized slave-labor-units of soviet socialism. It seemed to hold the
> promise of no more red-tape ... a government that would govern least,
> organized around the collective will of the skilled trades. Imagine how
> powerful its attraction for a liberty-techne' freak like Pound.
>
> Tim Romano
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