Mr. Stoneking sidesteps the main issue on which he
was attacked, viz., his small-minded smear of
"academics." I have to assume that his play evidences
more humanity than his non-dramatic prose.
==Dan P
At 12:25 PM 8/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I find Mr P's continuing, heated, personal attacks on
>me - "this Billy fellow" - unduly vicious and vehement
>given the fact that my only desire in sending out the
>script was to bring to the group's attention a piece
>of dramatic writing about Pound which (i believed)
>might open up a fertile ground of discussion, and one
>which many Pound scholars have misunderstood,
>(e.g.: one biographer writing that the Wandjina were
>African deities!) The play has been well-received by
>audiences and critics round the world, and I was
>not looking for either kudos or markets... only
>interested readers and a play of ideas. I feel like
>reminding Mr P of Pound's view: "you can spot
>the bad critic when he starts with the poet instead
>of the poem." I have the feeling he'd like to ride
>me out of town - or the group - on rail. And for what?
>Wanting to share another line of thought - another
>point of view?
>
>Please understand, I do I see this group as being "my
>audience". The play wasn't written for you. And besides,
>you're muchtoo small and lacking in influence to do
>anything at all for me in terms of the theatre world... a
>world which I am sure many of you stay well clear of.
>However, I would suggest to Mr P - assuming he is
>possessed of intellectual curiosity - that he at least read
>the play before slanging off at me. He might be
>pleasantly surprised. Mary and others associated with
>the Pound estate read it in ms form before it was published
>by Harper/Collins, and gave it their blessings, as well
>as permission to quote from Pound's poems, etc.
>
>Again... if there is anyone left in the forum who has
>not read the play or who is willing to set aside whatever
>prejudices which might be keeping them from reading it,
>it can be accessed at
>
>URL http://mycomm.excite.com/mycomm/browse.asp?cid=129973
>
>Having said this I will say no more.... let's finish it here, all right?
>
>another measured response (!) from Billy Marshall Stoneking
>
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:36 AM
>Subject: Re: the Stoneking Play
>
>
>> Alex,
>>
>> I am talking about the imposition on listmembers of UNWANTED
>> long files, whether sent as attachments or email inclusions.
>> What further pisses me off--and should bother all "academics"--
>> is Billy's sneering putdown of the entire class of academics,
>> as though Pound would have justified this snottiness, when in
>> fact EP would have liked nothing better than to have become
>> a REAL professor rather than just working out of his own
>> Ezuversity. It strikes me, as it should you, rather ironic
>> that this Billy fellow should openly express contempt for
>> the very audience he is trying to reach!
>>
>> ==DP
>>
>> At 09:15 AM 8/19/99 +0100, you wrote:
>> >Dan,
>> >
>> >the problem was that, although Mr Stoneking seemed to having mailed his
>> play as
>> >an attachment, it didn't arrive here as an attachment. Attachements
>> usually are
>> >no problem to read. If an attachement text is part of the eMail proper,
>> however,
>> >I don't know what to do with the loads of MIME-formatted ASCII's. That
>was
>> the
>> >reason why, after having asked Billy to mail me the play, I had to ask
>him a
>> >second time. It was the same: It didn't arrive here as an attachment but
>as
>> >the garbage part of his eMail. So I had wasted a good online half hour
>for
>> >NOTHING [& I have to pay my bills myself; my PC stands in my office at
>> home, not
>> >in a university].
>> >
>> >Which I see as more or less MY problem & not Billy's. Obviously I cannot
>> blame
>> >HIM for having got garbage in my PC instead of a play on EP. Mr
>Stoneking,
>> I'd
>> >venture to say without having "seen" the play, is a Poundian; thus he
>> belongs in
>> >the family and thus his play(s) deserve(s) our attention and not our
>> disapproval,
>> >no matter how new or old, how fast or slow our modems are. Le style c'est
>> >homme.
>> >
>> >alex
>> >
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