>From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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>Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Cantos
>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:03:45 -0500
>
>At 03:03 PM 12/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>If I say that Pound's work gains in integrity, am I saying therefore that
>>it
>>gains in coherence?
>
>In answer to Michael, I would say that the two concepts, integrity and
>coherence, are entirely disparate.  To mirror life with integrity does not
>require incoherence of form to match incoherence of life.  Art exists
>not just to mirror our world, but to make sense of it.
>==Dan P
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... perhaps chaos is both the primal
and the ultimate form of order ...

and maybe (just maybe) all the various
forms of order we seek to impose
are illusions

as to "nasty" in a work of "art".... well,
I wouldn't want to have dinner with Dante
or Milton ... or T.S.Eliot (come to think of it)

of course... we could always open that old go'round about
the artist's "responsibility to society".... and blah, blah, blah

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