Excellent point.
 
At 12:16 PM 6/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Sorry, folks, the reference to "Picabio"(!) was just my way of spelling
>Brancusi (the perfect ovals, and ovoids) in paragraph number 2 !
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>On Bill's point about "L'Homme Moyen Sensuel," I think we have to factor
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>in the date:  Pound had just written "February 1915", which he tells his
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>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..
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>-Saluti
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