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Re: Schaschan?
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Martin Knepper <[log in to unmask]>
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Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 15:30:10 +0100
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>Are the 'Schaschan' to whom Pound alludes at the end of broadcast #43 (31
>May 1942) entitled 'Brain Trust: Second Spasm'   --"Who are the Schaschan?
>I ask you?"--  the _Shashai_ mentioned at the end of the Book of Ezra?
>
>Tim Romano
 
I think Pound is thinking of the chinese term sha-shang, meaning to kill and
wound, inflicting causalties on etc, and can be used (especially in
classical chinese) in a nominal form, too.
(I do not know the broadcast, would murderer or so be suited?)

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