Yeah. But organs like the Post are the most vehemently 'politically
correct' in the sense that they know who butters their bread e.g.
corporate and political power. Further, they understand implicitly that
the kind of difficult work Pound requires is irrelevant to the
maintenance of their thoroughly acquisitive, politically and
economically correct (e.g. being on the side of overwhelming force)
world. Hence, Pound can be treated like an idiot by an idiot who by her
understanding of the true shape of PC can be feted as a genius or at
least a serious writer to be reckoned with (e.g. Carolyn See) no matter
what side of the bogus media fomented PC issue she's on because she is a
stooge of the only PC that counts, the Powerfully Connected. -CP
 William Cole wrote:
> 
> At 10:42 PM -0400 8/29/99, Brett Zombro wrote:
> 
> >Carolyn See may be an idiot, and there's no excuse for some
> >of the sloppy journalism there, but is her dismissive attitude
> >toward the Cantos really atypical?  It seems like there is a norm in
> >popular journalistic writing about  Pound which goes
> >something along the lines of "one of the
> >century's great poets, who made important contributions to
> >blah, blah, blah... but hardly anyone reads him and no wonder --
> >who would want to bother with such difficult... blah, blah,
> >incoherent blah in blah-teen different languages... and anyway
> >he was a crypto-modernist-fascist traitor to boot."
> 
> I dare say that this attitude is not restricted to journalists. I've heard
> much the same from English professors at major universities (or the
> variant, "who's that poet that helped Eliot with The Waste Land and later
> went insane?")
> 
> The fact that Pound's carries the double curse of being "difficult" and
> being politically incorrect offers a handy excuse to anyone who doesn't
> want to read him.
> 
> Sigh.
> 
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