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Subject:	Re: Pound & Cubism
From:	"Jonathan Ausubel, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Tue, 2 Jul 2002 08:19:02 -0700
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These are useful points about Cubism.

One of the effects of "laying out three dimensions
in two" (as DP put it) is that the Cubist canvas can show opposing
facets of a 3D object at once.  This effect is akin to what the Cantos
does with time--take a look at the twenty-three words of the first eight
lines of Canto 56, where Pound compresses not only the thirty-eight
pages of Cantos LIII, LIV, and LV but also the more than 4,000 years of
history he presents in those Cantos.

Of course the analogy to Cubism is "a bit stretched" since visual and
verbal representation are different things, but at least metaphorically,
the effects of the Cubists' and of Pound's practice are similar.

jma
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