I've been following the Morse-Romano with interest and have one thing to
add, for now: is it possible that the broadcasts are not only in a
different voice and medium, but in a different register, one with its own
imperatives?  So instead of reading the same words or phrases as if they
were regular textual evidence, we might need to consider them as what J
and/or M calls "verbal nitroglycerin."  Or what EP elsewhere calls
something halfway between words and action (that's the way he described
Lenin's use of language, and, I think, Mussolini's).
 
This approach would surely change the way we've been talking about
culpability, since most of us assume that evil language acts (books,
articles, private speech) can never be the equivalent of evil acts. Pace
"free speech without free radio speech is as zero," Pound considered radio
an exceptional medium.
 
Finally: how about radio (and other forms of electromagnetic energy) IN
the Cantos?  Very interesting intersection of race and radio in the figure
of Father Divine!
 
Jonathan Gill
Columbia University
 
On Sun, 28 Nov 1999, Jonathan Morse wrote:
 
> At 01:23 PM 11/28/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >You're almost as elliptical as Pound.
>
> I'm also out of dimes. But please trust me about this: two-person
> discussions are one of the things that kill lists off. Even at their best,
> they give the impression that the list is a coterie. Let's let other people
> speak now, shall we?
>
> Jonathan Morse
>