It is, of course, not so easy to separate the racial and the cultural in
American thinking, witness the closing pages of Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson --
 
The fact of the matter is that Pound bound them together rather tightly in
his own thinking --
 
Another letter -- to Margaret Anderson -- Jan. 25, 1918 -- speaking of Amy
Lowell:
 
"Is she yet weary of Braithwaite, and the mulattoism, mental and physical."
 
It's particulalry difficult to make the argument that a certain response is
a response to culture rather than to race when one has begun by assuming
that the cultural trait in question is shared by people you have already
assigned to a racial category --