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Re: Schaschan?
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Martin Knepper <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Nov 1999 16:05:33 +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
 
 
Flipping through my dictionaries some pages further, I find another maybe
even more possible connotation:
(sha shen) cheng ren are gentlemen (cheng ren), killed for their conviction,
the country etc. - martyrs for a just cause. ('lay down one's life for a
cause of justice' says my Jingxuan ying-han cidian almost poetically...)
 
Love
Martin

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