Dear Jack:

I knew it was a joke. Honest.

My humour in return may have been a touch too dry for your taste.

However, I wanted turn your joke to effect, and bring attention to Morante. She
deals with history, the "epic impulse", story and character in a way that I
find quite unique.

Michael

Jack Savage wrote:

> >From: Michael Springate <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> >    <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List
> >Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:23:14 -0500
> >
> >Charles:
> >
> >Well, a mid-century Italian writer with an incredible understanding of
> >women
> >would be the much too neglected Elsa Morante (you didn't limit your
> >question to
> >male writers, did you?), whose work "History, A Novel" is both very modern
> >and
> >very epic.
> >
> >It deserves much more attention then it receives.
> >
> >Michael
> >
> >charles moyer wrote:
> >
> > > ----------
> > > >From: Jack Savage <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > > >Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List
> > > >Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2001, 4:50 AM
> > > >
> > >
> > > >>From: Tim Bray <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> > > >>    <[log in to unmask]>
> > > >>To: [log in to unmask]
> > > >>Subject: Re: The Incoherence of the Pound List
> > > >>Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 20:47:20 -0800
> > > >>
> > > >>At 05:57 PM 20/12/01 -0500, Daniel Pearlman wrote:
> > > >> >  Having taught graduate courses in both Pound and
> > > >> >Frost, I have to say that I have gradually come to see--without any
> > > >> >suggestion of devaluing Pound or all that I have learned from
> >him--that
> > > >> >Frost appears the more tuned-in in every way, and is even, in the
> > > >> >political realm, far more astute than Pound.
> > > >>
> > > >>Your average turnip is more politically astute than was Pound.
> > > >>No disrespect at all to the excellent Frost.  -Tim
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Frost .... "tuned-in" ... "astute" ... ???
> > > >
> > > > I look forward to someone putting forth the proposition
> > > > that Eliot had a profound understanding of women.
> > >
> > > I for one would like someone to tell me just what Frost's politics were.
> > > Did Solzhenitsyn move to New England to find out?
> > >     Eliot at least understood Jessie Weston, at one time. Could someone
> > > offer an example of a writer from the period who had "a profound
> > > understanding of women"?
> > >
> > > Charles
> > > >
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> ferchrissake, it wasn't a question.... the crack about Eliot
> and a "profound understanding of women ...
>
> review the context !!!
>
> it   was   a
>
> J O K E
>
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