Uh, I am hesitant to follow this up, but I think that it should perhaps be
pointed out. I have this from an anecdotal (unpublished) source that I would
trust a thousand times more on any point in which it differed from the
source who claimed that EP said it.
 
Pound never actually said that bit about the "stupid suburban prejudice".
 
As far as I am concerned the source of that famous quote is...not
trustworthy. I am trying to be delicate.
 
In a nutshell: I was told that EP didn't say those words, and I believe it.
 
Others were present that day of the documented visit, and let us not forget
which of those that were present is the source of the story. [Doesn't
"suburban" sound more like _his_ vocabulary in that context than a word EP
would have chosen?]
 
I think that this quote was adopted by the Poundians more because many of
them[/us?] needed the excuse it provided than that it is believable beyond
question.
 
This point is tricky. I have it from an anecdotal source, at second hand at
that, but I am satisfied; I will never believe the story.
 
I don't wish to offend anyone here who may have known the person who gave us
the quote; my opinion is much stronger and more outraged than I express
here--unfortunately, I am nobody, and my source is, very very sadly,
deceased.
 
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> From:         Jonathan Morse
> Reply To:     Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> Sent:         Friday, November 26, 1999 9:54 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Getting things all mixed up
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> These days, actually, one hears echoes of Pat Buchanan. What was Pound's
> nice word for the state of mind? Ah yes: "suburban."
>
        ...
 
> Jonathan Morse
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