Regarding your second question, you will find a full discussion
of the "fourth dimension" in Ch. 8, "The Dimension of Stillness,"
of my book THE BARB OF TIME.
==DP
At 09:05 AM 07/02/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Would you please let me know about "the Cantos transforms time ("the
>fourth") into 2D space" ?
>
>I also read a note in a book that Pound didn't like the "forth dimension",
>what does that mean, and why ?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Hongguang
>(ex-cosmologist)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Daniel Pearlman" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 7:15 PM
>Subject: Re: Pound & Cubism
>
>
>Nice point about the Cubist influence, Dirceu,
>but isn't it a bit stretched? The Cubists simply
>flattened space--laying out three dimensions
>in two, whereas the Cantos transforms time
>("the fourth") into 2D space. Would you call
>Duchamps' "Nude Descending a Staircase"
>an example of Cubist time transformed into
>space? If so, then the Cubist analogy is
>stronger.
>==Dan
>
>At 06:25 PM 07/01/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Maya,
> > I think the only synchronicity in Pound's work
> >was well explained by Professor Pearlman; concerning
> >Chinese influence, there we go: Pound took the Chinese
> >written character as Fenollosa put it, and assumed it
> >was a very good example of how poesy works - or has to
> >work. The technique of The Cantos, as well as the
> >technique of many of his poems, is the development
> >Pound gave to the previous cubist experience, not only
> >from cubist painters, but from French poets like
> >Cocteau, Apollinaire, Reverdy and others. You can find
> >this opinion with arguments in Octavio Paz's Los Hijos
> >del Limo. There's a very good book on the French
> >influence called L'Influence du Symbolisme Français
> >sur la Poésie Américaine (de 1910 a 1920), Paris,
> >Librairie Ancienne Honoré Champion, 1929, written by
> >René Taupin.
> >
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