Mary I think it was who had told Eva Hesse how a gradually increasing number of
US students/admirers came into Venice's Calle Querini & used to put up TENTS
right there on the pavement after having been denied entry to the "hidden nest"
by Olga. But it seems that the sight of those little tents must have moved her at
last: She told the young people they WOULD be allowed in to see EP IF, yes, IF
they wd be able to recite a WHOLE CANTO of their own choice BY HEART.
 
But if that is true all this must have happened after 1967. In that year (my
Poundian annus mirablilis) I first met Hugh Kenner at Eva Hesse's pace in
Munich, Germany, were then taken by Sizzo (Siegfried Walter, Mary's son, he & I
with shoulder length hair!) to Brunnenburg at Tirolo/Merano, & after a week or so
there I proceeded to Venice, went to the Pensione Chi Chi, where EP & Olga used
to have lunch, and there he stood while she was talking to someone on the phone.
"Mr Pound", Olga then told me, used to take a nap right after lunch, but I cd
drop in by 4 p.m. I did so (guitar with me). And left by 11 p.m.
 
PS: BTW, I would have chosen Canto LXXV... mh.
 
alex
Horneburg/Germany