Caroline, Expression is Expression. The mode does not matter; do we know
How Beowulf or Sir Patrick Spens was written?

I think pound was called a madman partly due to his fascist activites,
ecspecially the radio broadcasts in rome [disturbing, I assure you; even to
me, a muslim]. His political views, his work which was not altogether
understandable (ie - had no Surface meaning; one had to dive), and his, and
(personal opinion only) admirers of his work in high places, who worried
he'd be tried for treason.

The bollingen prize is proof of his 'sanity'.

Caroline, what I meant to ask was whether Pound was Insane AT ALL ?

At 12:09 PM 9/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>This is nonsense. Recently a number of painters have been
>"explained" by the suggestion that they suffered from this,
>that, or the other impairment of vision. But whatever the
>neurological details of a painter's vision, the painting is on
>the canvas. I have written on the ways in which commodity
>production in general and capitalist commodity production
>in particular separates motive and act, the Reality of an
>act being determined not by the act itself (the making of
>a sandwich) but by whether or not in the future someone
>purchases the sandwich, the meaning of that purchase in
>turn (for the seller) depending on the power of exchange
>*in the future* of the price of the sandwich -- the "meaning"
>of that making of the sandwich being the proportion of the
>maker's rent that it pays.
>
>The relevance of this little excursion into historical materialism
>is that I suffer, severely at times, from clinical depression --
>and the severe anxiety that accompanies (or at times
>constitutes) depression gives special sharpness to one's
>awareness of an abstract future. But men and women who
>do *not* suffer from depression have similar or identical
>analyses. It neither adds to nor subtracts from the correctness
>of the argument that, in my case, it may have had its origins
>in my mental illness.
>
>                And not to lose life for bad temper.
>                                (Canto 98 / pg. 713)
>
>Bad temper can certainly accompany either unipolar or bipolar
>affective disorder -- but the reader is wasting her/his time trying
>to decide whether Pound wrote that line because his mental
>illness occasioned outbursts of temper.
>
>Carrol Cox
>
>Ahsan Ali wrote:
>
>> People,
>>  read this:
>> "On the other hand, it is just as clear that much of his work was the
>> result of mental illness, and that it is often difficult to distinguish
>> what was and what was not."
>> at
>>   http://www.geocities.com/~bblair/1030_f.htm
>>
>> Would you agree?
>>
>> Ahsan
>