How's your "cat among the pigeons" looking these days? I forget which one of
you mortar-boards said that. Machts nichts. Meme chose.
    But Mr. Gavin, good point on Wei's avoidance of Plato. Paul of Tarsus
surely saw how he could rewrite an emberous Judaic tradition by clamping on
to Greek coattails, there being also not just a little Platonism in
Augustine.
    Pound may have seen "to kalon decreed in the market place", but does
anyone know what they are selling there now? Regardless, Nietzsche still
applies that nobody there "believes in a higher man", but he didn't say
"hired man". And one must wonder on whose payroll the cat is listed!
    Carlo Parcelli bringing up Diogenes (one of my personal favorites of the
voices of irreverent indignation) puts me in mind of the story of Diogenes
visiting Plato's academy. He had heard Plato define man as an animal, biped
and featherless, and was applauded. "Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it
into the lecture-room with the words, 'Here is Plato's man.' In consequence
of which there was added to the definition, 'having broad nails'". (Diogenes
Laertius)
    We can be sure that there will be those who continue plucking on Pound
for some time to come although we all know already exactly what they will
claim to find under the feathers.
    But I'll go you one further heresy, Mr.Wei and Co. I am not going to
apologize for Pound because I think the jury is still out; and I haven't yet
been convinced that he was entirely wrong. This is all beside the issue on
which there is no question i.e. that Pound was the poet of poets and the
poet for poets in the twentieth century. And I'll bet my
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