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