billy,
     what irony...this argument while'st round us swirls news of the
hightened ferocity of the jewish state's immense sustained criminality,
the displacement, racial cleansing, of the ancient population of the area of
palestine....a criminality  subscribed in every temple in the us at a
minimum with the purchase of israel bonds....?  i put it to you, as a
modest, serious, and humanely scrupulous  person,  is anti-semitism
groundless? ...and don't play the coward and say the two issues are
unrelated...they are cognate...pound and the fascist/communist canaille were
palestinians

bob


----- Original Message -----
From: Billy Marshall Stoneking <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2001 3:15 AM
Subject: Re: pound in purgatory


> Ian's language game may be an example of a point of view well argued, but
Pound was not an ordinary citizen, nor did he have shortened antennae. He
knew. And he did nothing. Said nothing. Except to continue his attack on
"kikes", "yids", etc. in one of the more hateful incidences of ugly
intolerance ever seen from one who sought Elysium. This argument about Pound
and politics will never be put to rest, I can see that, but it feels more
and more like it isn't something that has anything to do with Pound anymore,
except that he is wheeled out periodically in a feint that would allow
others - our comtemps - to go on grinding their own precious axes. I s'pose
I cannot escape the charge of indulging my own axes in this missive, but
common sense and great poetry begin and end by calling a table a table and a
chair a chair. No more, no less.
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