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Date: | Wed, 10 Jun 1998 12:16:36 -0700 |
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Sorry, folks, the reference to "Picabio"(!) was just my way of spelling
Brancusi (the perfect ovals, and ovoids) in paragraph number 2 !
On Bill's point about "L'Homme Moyen Sensuel," I think we have to factor
in the date: Pound had just written "February 1915", which he tells his
father he had written in blind anger at the destruction of the war.
With friends dying on a daily basis, it wasn't the best time to
showcase his aethetic abilities. In any case, the Smart Set was
self-consciously sophisticated, never one of Pound's strong suits.
"L'Homme Moyen" was simply, as Pound himself called it, "a diversion."
To think that EP was not joking when he rhymed simplistically: "Tis of
my country that I would endite,/In hope to set some misconceptions
right" seems to me to grievously underestimate his talents at that
time--and for many years previously..
-Saluti
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