>Are the 'Schaschan' to whom Pound alludes at the end of broadcast #43 (31
>May 1942) entitled 'Brain Trust: Second Spasm' --"Who are the Schaschan?
>I ask you?"-- the _Shashai_ mentioned at the end of the Book of Ezra?
>
>Tim Romano
Flipping through my dictionaries some pages further, I find another maybe
even more possible connotation:
(sha shen) cheng ren are gentlemen (cheng ren), killed for their conviction,
the country etc. - martyrs for a just cause. ('lay down one's life for a
cause of justice' says my Jingxuan ying-han cidian almost poetically...)
Love
Martin