No, seriously. To whom was Pound referring with "pacifist careerists" (H.G.
Wells?) and "my Viennese cafe' conspirator"?  (G2K, Section x, GOVERNMENT).
Pound tears into "Peace movements financed by war-profiteers" earlier in
the Sophists section.
Who would the Viennese conspirator have been?
Tim Romano



At 06:21 PM 4/4/03, sylvester pollet wrote:
>Colin Powell? Or did you mean with whom was he sharing coffee?
>
>At 2:27 PM -0500 4/3/03, Tim Romano wrote:
>>Who is Pound talking about when he writes in G2K:
>>
>>        "Nothing has been viler in our time than the sloth and
>>hypocrisy of pacifist careerists who have pimped for the
>>obscurantists.
>>        If I can't go quite as far as my Viennese cafe' con-
>>spirator and believe that *all* pacifism is a diabolic and
>>conscious device engineered by the war-makers as a
>>definite part of their mechanism, I can at least believe
>>that vigorous serpents have instinct, and that men re-
>>solved to live by human blood, unconsciously and/or
>>semiconsciously, favor and finance obscurantings."
>>
>>?
>>Tim Romano