Lolololololol. Utterly lame. But it certainly proves my point about list 
members' imaginations or lack thereof. Not to mention the kind of 
saccharin association Pound so much abhored. And add lack of talent yet 
not always the good sense to realize it, to the list and kudos for an 
amazing demonstration of my point. The conceit at the end is 
particularly 'silly', sensually retrograde and ad hominem.

Better you and the other academes (official and otherwise) restrict 
yourselves to enveloping and preserving the corpse---like formaldehyde. 
I'm not saying you don't do a stellar job. I'm just saying its not of 
the first order and that, as you've demonstrated below, there are 
concrete and incontrovertible reasons for that. Best. CP

Dirk Johnson wrote:
> Expletive deleted.
>
> If anyone has led me astray in life
> It was Ezra Pond.
>
> If anyone has enhanced 
> Every cliff I've jumped off 
> With beauty and love,
> It was ezra Pound.
>
> If anyone
> Has shown me a true path
> It was Ezra Pound.
>
> If anyone taught me 
> Not to blindly follow authority 
> It was Ezra Pound.
>
> I cannot accept
> Ezra Pound as my authority - 
> He taught me too well.
>
> And he taught me while
> He was doing - 
> Sometimes right, 
> Sometimes wrong, 
> Like a real human being.
>
> Those who can't do
> Can't teach.
>
> ___________
> Dirk Johnson
> from Samsung i760 Dumbphone
> Windows Mobile 6.0
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alphaville Books <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 7:35 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Those who can, do.
>
> Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach (or dig up obscure facts 
> etc.). Its obvious why it seems no one on the Pound list writes  poetry 
> in the spirit or with the rich complexity of the Cantos (present company 
> excepted.)  The Pound list members lack the imagination.
>
> As I've said before, I'm certain Pound would be pilloried on this list 
> for many of his ideas if he had not already earned a literary 'sinecure' 
> elsewhere. In short, Pound could not be a member of his own list. He 
> would for a time vigorously defend his 'silly' positions against the 
> cloacae. But ultimately he would have been driven off.  
>
> Dont' tell me that even in its most ironic sense half the people heard 
> from on this list would hound mercilessly anyone who proposed that if 
> 'the (Confucian) classics had a wide circulation' in the U.S. that the 
> moral fiber of the country would be enhanced.
>
> Or Frobenius. Or Douglas & Orage. Or a hundred other poetic conceits 
> Pound held. CP
>   
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