And the bestiality, Wayne. Don't forget to tell them about the bestiality. Too bad though that none of the scenes involves an ithyphallic penguin.
Tim Romano
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Pounds" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2000 04:16 AM
Subject: Re: Ezra Pound website --agenda
 
 
> Yes, I agree, we should create a centralized site and
> upgrade our offerings. Specifically, there are three
> things we urgently need to do.
> 
> 1. Put as much of the Cantos on line as is in the
> public domain.
> 
> 2. Make an index to Paideuma.
> 
> 3. And not least, get "the most beautiful book in the
> language" (ABC of Reading 58, 127) back in print.
> Heffers in London told me two years ago that Penguin
> was planning to publish it, and Amazon.com now lists
> it as forthcoming in March. Let's hope. Don't the damn
> fools know that under the rubric of "Shakespeare's
> Ovid" and with the boost of Pound's praise they could
> sell a copy to every university library and every
> literary academic in the English-speaking world? Not
> to mention the "Ovid boom" represented by best
> seller's like <After Ovid> and Ted Hughes' <Tales from
> Ovid>.
> Can anybody twist Penguin's ear?  (Or his beak if you
> can't find the ear.)
>         Or let's sell 'em the millennialist line.
> <Metamorphoses> written roughly at time of birth of
> Jesus X when the marble was falling from the Greek n
> Roman pantheons , and religious trappings lying around
> like old masks in the theater lumber room. Says
> Hughes, Ovid's tales tell us "what it feels like to
> live in the psychological gulf that opens at the end
> of an era."  Santa Patienza, if that's not enough,
> tell 'em the <Metamorphoses> have sex and violence
> too!
> If all this doesn't get the meatheaded meadiaheads'
> attention, we could put Golding's Ovid **on line**.
> _The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled
> Metamorphosis_ at BelEsprit.com (aka EzraPound.com)!
> Why not?--Chapman's Homer is on line.
> 
> 
> Wayne
> 
> 
> 
> --- Garrick Davis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Pound listmembers,
> >
> > (I don't believe this message "went through" the
> > first time. Apologies if I
> > am mistaken...)
> >
> > Some time ago, the suggestion was forwarded that we
> > (as a group, I believe)
> > should create and maintain a website concerning the
> > poet.
> >
> > This website would be a model of its kind, in that
> > very few (if any) websites
> > are maintained by a community of scholars studying
> > the subject independently.
> >
> > The logical name for such a website is, of course,
> > ezrapound.com
> > which has been purchased by a woman in Toronto who,
> > as yet, has not bothered
> > to place a website at that address. We might be able
> > to purchase the name
> > from her, or purchase a .org or.net variation. I
> > have not yet contacted this
> > individual.
> >
> > Are any of the listmembers still interested in this
> > ambitious project?
> >
> > Regards,
> > G. Davis
> > CPR (www.cprw.com)
> >
> 
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