I do know the answer to the question about Pound and W.W--one of the few
that used to belong to this site who could actually answer the question;
nobody on your comp committee will ask the question because it wouldn't
occur to them. Although, I know the answer on "A Pact" I don't want to
bore you with the polemic, however, ever how.  By the way, way, way, I
could also manage the Harold Bloom persona, but I don't like the guy very
much. He's the great asshole of American criticism, an mere imitator. Oh,
by the way, most people find Emerson difficult; he does take time and
effort--afterall he is a great poet philosopher.  He's difficult like
Pound is difficult.  Also, if you actually believe there is a "truth," I
wonder how you support such an assertion without providing a polemic of
your own.  Truth is irrelevant in the real world and you will NEVER have
access to it, except as found through the seer, the poet--this both Pound
and Emerson though true.  We could say that your mere assertion, you
provide a polemic of sort.  You folks miss something significant when you
fail to see the connect/disconnect between Pound and Emerson and his
enterage (which include HDT and WW.)  Whiteman by the way was just the
physical manifestation of Emerson.  By the way, Whiteman was not a
Victorian poet, as you suggest.  We could say that Emerson was, although
he wanted to move beyond the neoclassical simple-minded poetic.  Pound
went far beyond all these guys.  Because a few (or more) of you folks fail
to understand the over-arching poetic and politic of the Cantos, doesn't
mean there isn't one, won, 1.

I wish you well, everyone.  Thanks for the good time, but I think I will
seek out individuals and not groups for help.  I fair better that way.
I'm a seer like Pound and Emerson was; nothing more than a miserable
receptical in which either the gods or the oversoul or some other
metaphysical manifestation pours its miserable poesy.  The poesy isn't
mine though, but the metaphysical phenomenons.  I think I'll check into
the mental hospital, now--maybe I can finish the Cantos.

Cheers,
Mr. Pound

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