In a message dated 8/31/99 2:27:53 AM, you wrote:
 
<<For all that, the movie Pulp Fiction, for example, worked in a kind of
simple prismic or ideogrammic way. I tend to think it would not have been
produced as it was without Pound or his Cantos coming first. And lots of
people liked that movie. Maybe the modern world is slowly becoming more
Poundian. But the emphasis is on slowly.>>
 
I think that people liked PULP FICTION because it was silly and violent, a
combination that seemed to appeal to many (not me).  It is not more Poundian
than any other narrative film, EACH of which is constructed, by convention,
in a  'prismic or ideogrammic way'.  I would add that what this viewer
experienced as the sophomoric tone of PULP FICTION was not especially
Pound-like.
Best,
Jay Anania