Ian's language game may be an example of a point of view well argued, but Pound was not an ordinary citizen, nor did he have shortened antennae. He knew. And he did nothing. Said nothing. Except to continue his attack on "kikes", "yids", etc. in one of the more hateful incidences of ugly intolerance ever seen from one who sought Elysium. This argument about Pound and politics will never be put to rest, I can see that, but it feels more and more like it isn't something that has anything to do with Pound anymore, except that he is wheeled out periodically in a feint that would allow others - our comtemps - to go on grinding their own precious axes. I s'pose I cannot escape the charge of indulging my own axes in this missive, but common sense and great poetry begin and end by calling a table a table and a chair a chair. No more, no less.


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