Miss Calamia's logic is twisted, at the very least.
If I were a student of AIDS, it would not be out of
veneration of the disease, but rather, apart from
the purely intellectual desire to understand it,
out of the hope of containing its spread. As all
of you can now see, there are those on this list
who identify with Pound's antisemitism. As an
erstwhile student of this disease in Pound, I have
done my homework trying to understand it (cf. my
"Ezra Pound: America's Wandering Jew").
Remember, Listees, passivity toward the evil in
your community--yes, even your electronic community--
is the same in outcome as promoting it. My immediate
object is not to eliminate Moyers and his supporters
from this list, but to let them know, by our communal
response, that the civilized world finds them
repugnant.
==Dan Pearlman
At 12:38 AM 12/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Mr. Pearlman,
>Why are you stunned?
>Was not Mr. Pound antisemitic? Yet you venerate and study Ezra and at the
>same time you feel you are too good to belong this list if Mr. Moyer
>contributes his pearls of wisdom? Are you asking Mr. Moyer to sign off the
>list?
>I am sure you will respond.
>
>Sincerely,
>Maria Anna Calamia
>
>
>>From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
>>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Moyer's antisemitic posting
>>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:04:55 -0500
>>
>>Am I the only one on this list to register--and to react to--
>>the antisemitism of Mr. Moyer in his recent posting, which I
>>copy below? If you can condone this sort of language and
>>this sort of mentality on this list, as you appear to do by
>>your collective silence, then this is no place for me to
>>hang out.
>>
>>==Dan Pearlman
>>
>>From: charles moyer <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Re: a parody from "Instigations"
>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>
>>Can't sleep? Try counting sheep. There's a never-ending supply, and you'll
>>need them if you let such trifles as these trouble your sleep.
>> If that doesn't work here's another parody that might help;
>>
>> The Land's at its spring
>> And day's at the morn;
>> No one's a novice;
>> The Senate's Jew-pearled;
>> The flag's on its wing;
>> The snailmail's all porn;
>> Greenspan's in office
>> All's right with the world.
>>-
>>
>>
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