At 12:34 AM 12/10/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Pardon me if this might be an offside topic for most of you, but what
>the H* is the 'Ezra Pound Institute of Civilization' ??? Has it
>something to do with this Buffalo circle you'd been threading some weeks
>ago (and which I did not follow to carefully, frankly speaking - it
>looked that aside of my knowledge, interests and opinions, the
>Adams-Cantos of this list), or is it just the 500th 'Sage of Zion
>revisited'?
 
The Ezra Pound Institute of Civilization -- like the International
Institute of Jewish Studies and the Aryan League of America -- is Pound's
St. Elizabeths friend Eustace Mullins, author of _"This Difficult
Individual, Ezra Pound"_.
 
Aged 76 now, Mullins still self-publishes his conspiracy theories from his
home in Virginia. These include books with such titles as _The Curse of
Canaan_, _The Biological Jew_, and an item directly inspired by Pound,
_Secrets of the Federal Reserve_. For a grimly comic take on the career of
that last book, which has been continuously in print since the early
fifties, see Michael Lind's _Up from Conservatism: Why the Right Is Wrong
for America_ (Free Press, 1996).
 
But no, there's no connection between Mullins and the Buffalonians. They're
poetic types, and politically on the left.
 
Jonathan Morse