As expected it's worse than that.
 Go to http://www.loper.org/~george/trends/1999/Oct/76.html
When I looked at this site and read the quotations on the stones for each
writer I had to laugh at how each quotation, naturally brief, naturally out
of any context, was chosen so it could be safely interpreted "nihil obstat"
"inspirational" -old trick of the old trickster preacher. But how many
possible quotations I could see also from nearly all these writers that
would appear to have been inspired by Old Beezelbub himself. And so the
perfect wedding made in Heaven between the Institution and his bride
Hypocrisy continues its public nuptials, now in a "poets' ingle".
    And Redman, you are quoted here as saying "and he (Pound) contributed
to a climate of opinion that enabled the Holocaust to happen". I would like
to see even this "water-down" accusation  proved. Was there ever anyone who
condoned the Nazi pogrom because they were guided by Pound's remarks? Since
Pound was never tried the question should forever remain mute. But it
doesn't because it fits so well others' political agendas. I suggest you ask
Carlo Parcelli how influential Pound is to today's raving Hamans.
   And as for Ms. Ra, the converted Jew who has joined the congregation of
the better networking Episcopalians and is responsible for leading the
righteous charge of petitioners might when confronted with the scripture of
John 1:47 of her newly discovered "word of God" comfortably identify herself
with Nathaniel rather than the others to which her apparently "self-hating"
Messiah refers.

    Here's a different quote for Henry James' stone:
"the triumph of superficiality and the apotheosis of the raw"

    Here's another suggestion for Frost's rock of ages:
"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

This could be fun. Anyone else want to play?

Charles


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>From: charles moyer <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound's nomination to Writers Corner
>Date: Wed, Mar 5, 2003, 5:45 AM
>

> "Writers Corner" sounds like some kind of clerical purgatory anyway, where
> the writers are expected to face the wall and remain silent.
>
> "The death of any great nation is always a suicide." -Arnold Toynbee
>
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>>From: Tom White <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Pound's nomination to Writers Corner
>>Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 11:13 PM
>>
>
>> I can't imagine Pound would want, alive or dead, to keep company with the
>> kind of people controlling access to this "Writers Corner." He has made
>> quite sure that it will be centuries before commonplace, conventional, and
>> stupid people will be able to be comfortable in his presence or do anything
>> but shriek and run from the room when his name is mentioned. Meanwhile we
>> live amid the final rendering and grinding down of the injustices he railed
>> against. It was Emerson I think who said a man is bigger than a city, surely
>> he is bigger than a cathedral. Tom White
>>
>>
>>
>>> From: Jennifer Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:54:54 EST
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Pound's nomination to Writers Corner