Ahhh! Diogenes the Dawg!!

"The only place to spit in a rich man's house is in his face."

and his admonition to Alexander, "Stand out of my light."

"And I bathed myself with the acid to free myself/ of the hellticks."

Or what's that line from Juvenal about "indignation" being the only
appropriate tone for poetry in these times.

CP

charles moyer wrote:
>
> 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
> PlatinumSelectPlutoniumIsotope293ClickCitinointerestforsixmonthsVisaCreditCa
> rd on that.
>
> CM

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