tim,
    i can see the various personnae ep assumed qua
ego scriptor; but, can't see anything archetypal
...as for example whitman's american adam,
or emerson's jeremiah.
how do you mean ep's "archetypal self"?
another american adam?

bob



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From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:39 AM
Subject: No place of grace


> Bob,
> With his discovery of the archetypal nature of the Self
> Pound progressed from Solipsism into Nature and Creation
> to rediscover 'the green world' thereby completing the circle.
> This universal place of grace he saw threatened
>    by the relentless mechanization of human labor
>    by the rapacious exploitation of natural resource
>    by the endless barrage of soul-less advertisements
>           and other projections whose goal was destruction
>             of the inner-sanctum
>              that we may become insatiable hedonistic consumers
>                  who show up for work on time
>                  and pay every tax
>                  and cheerfully submit our selves to the machine.
>
> Fascism was salvific for Pound for the paradoxical reasons you imply. The
> directed will seemed indeed a manful remedy for the smothering machine.
> Fascism projected an image of the nobility of the artisan versus the
> dehumanized slave-labor-units of soviet socialism.  It seemed to hold the
> promise of no more red-tape ... a government that would govern least,
> organized around the collective will of the skilled trades. Imagine how
> powerful its attraction for a liberty-techne'  freak like Pound.
>
> Tim Romano