tim,
     respectfully...but... profoundly, disagree,
for my money the pomos got it bout right, here:
culture, baseball to poetry, is a unity,
or, said better,
both baseball and poetry
are moments of an unified living popular cultural praxis.
 
bart giametti did a almost inconceivable thing,
interjecting a thorn of honesty into the flesh of boojwa sport,
which on account of its thoroly pecuniary essence,
it finds utterly excruciating...nso on;
 
allegory, no?
...and the moral, of course:
a corrupt cultural discourse is convulsed by honesty,
by "not falsifying the record".
 
morse's 9 proofs of  "blood-dripping hands" performance
(including btw calling you, anti-semite, and
therefore complicit in "blood-dripping", eh?),
was fraudulent...patently so...
then to have these others leap to his support here,
on account a the holocaust industry (baseball) stock
's gotta be upheld
...is, not fully understandable,
... simply, intellectually squalid.
nso...to maintain the pomo analogy,
kinda the intellectual discourse
of the jerry springer show level
of the cultural praxis.
...and therefore a travesty to attribute
even the possiblity of a scintilla of solidarity
with suffering humanity...nso on...
 
anyway, guess maybe there's a liv'n in the lavender sachet trade;
but, otherwise,
there's no avoiding these things..., eh?
 
anyway you do hold up yer end,
thanks,
bob
 
 
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 30, 1999 9:53 AM
Subject: Re: Getting things all mixed up
 
 
Bob,
The nation at large is more interested in whether Pete Rose is inducted into
the Baseball Hall of Fame than in whether Pound belongs in the Poet's
Corner. Not one American in ten thousand cares about the philosophical
issues we've been discussing on this list. Not one in a thousand has a clue.
 
The subject we've been discussing, in that it impinges upon the horrors of
the holocaust, is an emotional one, and the attempts to demonize Pound
(Morse, in my opinion), or conversely, the effort not to do so by separating
the EVIL THINGS he did from his poetry thereby confining oneself to the
heart's Clean Room (Dan Pearlman's compartmentalism) are natural, fully
understandable emotional responses to that legacy. But if we're going to
make USE of Pound, we have to turn the light on the intellectual discourse
and social conditions that shaped his thought.
 
Pound wrote apropos of e.e. cummings's trip to Soviet Russia and e.e.'s book
about that visit entitled EIMI ("or AMI or however your different Greek
professors tell you to pronounce it"):
 
"Now the USE of a great writer to his RACE is due precisely to his having
PERSONAL direct perception, and puttin' it down on paper. Don't matter what
he thinks he is doin', his USE to race or nation consists in seeing the
OBJECT and writin' down what he sees, and not falsifying his record. Mebbe
by an' by afterwards that word photo, that diagram, that TRUE diagram can
serve to enlighten his people. Don't forget they are HIS people as they will
never be the people of any member of Congress."
 
Tim Romano