>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: internet petition
>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:33:31 -0800
>
>At 08:21 AM 21/03/02 -0800, charles moyer wrote:
> > but
> >that does not answer why Pound was and still is considered a dangerous
> >individual.
>
>Who on earth could reasonably argue that EP is or even was
>dangerous?  He was a great poet with a sideline in bigotry and
>deranged crackpottery - in his dreams he was dangerous.  Bigots
>as a class are dangerous, but really only when they can get
>their opinions taken seriously. -Tim


The title of the Ur-biography of Pound ... in the early years
of the Pound Industry --= was: "This Difficult Individual"
(by the inimitable Eustace Mullins)

and, of course, the difficult can be dangerous ...
at least to the "status quo"

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