Dear Mr Pearlman: No-one who has responded to your posting re Charles
Moyer's parody has "identified with Pound's antisemitism". You too should
be careful what you write.
David Moody
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Pearlman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: Moyer's antisemitic posting
> Miss Calamia's logic is twisted, at the very least.
> If I were a student of AIDS, it would not be out of
> veneration of the disease, but rather, apart from
> the purely intellectual desire to understand it,
> out of the hope of containing its spread. As all
> of you can now see, there are those on this list
> who identify with Pound's antisemitism. As an
> erstwhile student of this disease in Pound, I have
> done my homework trying to understand it (cf. my
> "Ezra Pound: America's Wandering Jew").
>
> Remember, Listees, passivity toward the evil in
> your community--yes, even your electronic community--
> is the same in outcome as promoting it. My immediate
> object is not to eliminate Moyers and his supporters
> from this list, but to let them know, by our communal
> response, that the civilized world finds them
> repugnant.
>
> ==Dan Pearlman
>
>
>
> At 12:38 AM 12/04/2000 -0500, you wrote:
> >Mr. Pearlman,
> >Why are you stunned?
> >Was not Mr. Pound antisemitic? Yet you venerate and study Ezra and at the
> >same time you feel you are too good to belong this list if Mr. Moyer
> >contributes his pearls of wisdom? Are you asking Mr. Moyer to sign off
the
> >list?
> >I am sure you will respond.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >Maria Anna Calamia
> >
> >
> >>From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> >> <[log in to unmask]>
> >>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>Subject: Moyer's antisemitic posting
> >>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 18:04:55 -0500
> >>
> >>Am I the only one on this list to register--and to react to--
> >>the antisemitism of Mr. Moyer in his recent posting, which I
> >>copy below? If you can condone this sort of language and
> >>this sort of mentality on this list, as you appear to do by
> >>your collective silence, then this is no place for me to
> >>hang out.
> >>
> >>==Dan Pearlman
> >>
> >>From: charles moyer <[log in to unmask]>
> >>Subject: Re: a parody from "Instigations"
> >>To: [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >>Can't sleep? Try counting sheep. There's a never-ending supply, and
you'll
> >>need them if you let such trifles as these trouble your sleep.
> >> If that doesn't work here's another parody that might help;
> >>
> >> The Land's at its spring
> >> And day's at the morn;
> >> No one's a novice;
> >> The Senate's Jew-pearled;
> >> The flag's on its wing;
> >> The snailmail's all porn;
> >> Greenspan's in office
> >> All's right with the world.
> >>-
> >>
> >>
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