So what? What else is new? So what Wei. So what. Get a life Wei. Get a bleeding life.

M Deporres



On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:39:38 GMT  En Lin Wei <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> JB wrote:
>
> <<if my position was any clearer, I'd be a stone etching. . . .>>
>
> I think your position could be stated more clearly, using quotations from
> Pound's work, from Pound's sources, or from historians who wrote about the
> periods covered in certain cantos.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not believe you have produced any
> evidence (and very few arguments) to sustain your position.
>
> You seem to be offended by the posting of any significant amount of material
> which challenges your viewpoint.  Why?  Why should you take personally an
> analysis of the ideological, political, and social implications of Ezra
> Pound's work?
>
> Why should you take offense simply because the evidence I present, or my
> interpretation of said evidence, contradicts your view?
>
> This is a DISCUSSION LIST, after all.  Any worthwhile discussion will
> inevitably involve the contemplation of viewpoints which differ from ones
> own.
>
> There should be no difficulty in looking at Pound's writing and coming to
> different conclusions regarding its significance.  What for instance should
> we make of this quote:
>
>
>   And as an American I do NOT want to see my country
>   annihilatin' the population of Iceland, as the British
>   annihilated the Maoris.  And as for the Australians, they
>   deserve a Nippo-Chinese invasion.  Criminals were their
>   granddads, and their contribution to civilization is not so
>   much as to merit even a Jewish medal.  Why the heck
>   the Chinese and the Japs don't combine and drive that
>   dirt out of Australia, and set up a bit of civilization in those
>   parts, is for me part of the mystery of the orient.
>    And in any case I do NOT want my compatriots from
>   the ages of 20 to 40 to go git slaughtered to keep up the
>   Sassoon and other British Jew rackets in Singapore and
>   in Shanghai.  That is not my idea of American patriotism.
>     (Doob, 21).
>
> This passage could be interpreted in any number of ways, and it touches on
> several important issues, having to do with imperialism, Pound's views on
> British, Chinese, Japanese, Australian and American culture, how notion of
> "patriotism", and his attitudes toward Jews.
>
> Come to your own conclusion of course.  But please put forward, some
> evidence, some quotes, or some arguments if want your position to be
> clearer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wei
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