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In John Tytell's "Ezra Pound - The Solitary Volcano" he stated on page 338:
 
"Two weeks before his eighty-seventh birthday he read at a small cafe for
an intimate gathering of friends. The material included a sort of
postscript to The Cantos:
 
're USURY
I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a
cause.
The cause is AVARICE .' "
 
Tytell goes on with "It all seemed like an apologia, ..."
 
Does anyone disagree that Pound recanted on his lifelong stand on usury?

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