In a message dated 07/28/2003 3:44:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> there are long stretches of the
> work that are just plain boring, during which you're not really aware of a
> controlling hand that actually knows where it's going, and i think several
> parts that without the likes of Terrell and Stock to elucidate would in fact
> not give any hint of the poet working outside of the text.

A few serious questions.  First, which sections are you referring to?  It may
be that there are those on this list for whom those sections are not boring,
and who may be able to enlighten the rest of us as to the value and excitement
that they find.   Second, part of the enjoyment of reading Pound is to make
the discoveries that come with secondary and tertiary readings.  To expect to
understand a text immediately, or nearly so, reveals a bias on the part of the
reader which is, if one thinks about it, limiting.

Joe Brennan.....



They hang the man and flog the woman
That steal the goose from off the common,
But let the greater villain loose
That steals the common from the goose.

Constant apprehension of war has the same tendency
to render the head too large for the body.  A standing military
force with an overgrown executive will not long be safe.
companions to liberty.  -- Thomas Jefferson


"America is a quarter of a billion people totally misinformed and disinformed
by their government. This is tragic but our media is -- I wouldn't even say
corrupt -- it's just beyond telling us anything that the government doesn't
want us to know."

Gore Vidal