You're almost as elliptical as Pound. _What_ did Faulkner do?  And what were the strange thoughts Pound was having about ten-year-old boys (mentioned in your previous post)?
 
Re Luther Burbank in the Agresti letter: broadcast #35 ("The Precarious") shows unmistakable influence of eugenic thinking. And concern with eugenics runs throughout the broadcasts. 
 
A commonplace of applied eugenics, heredity as applied to social science, was that the nation was being weakened by luxury and self-indulgence: "...their own passions will run 'em and run the nation to ruin." Compare the references to Alex. Hamilton ("pink haired snot...a great man with the ladies") with the references to Beardsley ("pink-nailed esthete") in the broadcast where Pound links good ART, not Beardsley's variety, with HEALTH (#52). Compare the frequent mention of syphilis as a figure for the nation's decay (e.g.#51) which is part of that complex of ideas. A nation suffering from "chordee" (#31). "Yiddish refugee...publisher of pornography in Berlin"(#59).
 
Compare references to dilution of the American racial stock; weakened by "IMPORTATIONS" (#21, 42, 43). Forces working against so-called positive-eugenist forces: "Contraception, killin' the native stock...instead of BREEDING a population." (#35).  The dysgenic effects of war. 
 
This complex of ideas is linked to what in Pound's mind is the cause: "Aristocracies ROT, they fall under usurocracy" (#53).  
 
These broadcasts represent much more than "suburban prejudices"  and more than a pathology. They are a reflection of the American _intellectual_ climate with respect to issues of race and national health. 
 
Tim Romano
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Jonathan Morse <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, November 28, 1999 12:46 AM
Subject: Re: Getting things all mixed up
 
 
> No, Tim. I'M the guy with the closed mind. My phone keeps eating my dimes
> and demanding more, and Tim the operator keeps assuring me that that can't
> be happening.
> 
> But let me help with the reading one more time. No, Pound didn't believe
> that the intelligent and talented Jew was the exception. That inference
> can't be drawn from the letter to Olivia Agresti, and it can't be drawn
> from his other writings either. On the contrary: "the yidd is a stimulant."
> Psychologists would characterize Pound's antisemitism as a superego
> stereotype, not the id stereotype you seem to have in mind. To get an idea
> of the difference, compare a Scotchman joke with a Polack joke. Or listen
> in on the conversation of Pound's compeer Jason Compson as he remarks:
> 
> "You think the man that sweats to put it into the ground gets a red cent
> more than a bare living," I says. "Let him make a big crop and it wont be
> worth picking; let him make a small crop and he wont have enough to gin.
> And what for? so a bunch of dam eastern jews I'm not talking about men of
> the jewish religion," I says. "I've known some jews that were fine
> citizens. You might be one yourself," I says.
> 
> "No," he says. "I'm an American."
> 
> "No offense," I says. "I give every man his due, regardless of religion or
> anything else. I have nothing against jews as an individual," I says. "It's
> just the race. You'll admit that they produce nothing. They follow the
> pioneers into a new country and sell them clothes."
> 
> "You're thinking of Armenians," he says, "aren't you. A pioneer wouldn't
> have any use for new clothes."
> 
> "No offense," I says. "I dont hold a man's religion against him."
> 
> "Sure," he says. "I'm an American. My folks have some French blood, why I
> have a nose like this. I'm an American, all right."
> 
> ------
> 
> And you see: Faulkner did it without once uttering the word "waal." But
> Tim, what do you plan to buy with my dimes?
> 
> Jonathan Morse
> 
>