To have, with decency, knocked

non dulce non et decor

The rhythms are the same.
 Tim Romano

I had proposed:
> How about an allusion to _non dulce non et decor_  ?



> > P.S. 2. "Decency" and "Decorum" -- decent from L. decens, pres. part. of
> decere,
> > to be fitting, suit.
> > Roy Pearce in *Historicism Once More* (I'm working from memory of the
> title) in an
> > essay on Barlow, Whitman, and Pound suggests that Pound believed that an
> absolute
> > decorum maintained by force of will could replace plot. (That's a
> paraphrase from
> > memory -- don't trust it.) Canto 81 seems almost to be a sort of
> summarizing
> > Canto. One could hypthetically imagine the Cantos as ending with the
line
> >                                 all in the diffidence that faltered . .
.
> > Regardless of what one thinks of its politics or its anti-materialist
> metaphysics,
> > the poem is a fantastic exercise of the will which seems to merit the
> epithet
> > "heroic."
> >
> >
>
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