"Bachelor tea" is fine.    I am happy.
    -Grace

Tim Bray wrote:

> Tim Romano wrote:
>
>> http://www.mentalfloss.com/newissue.htm
>
>
>>>
>>>     I have not seen it yet, but I understand there is an article on
>>> EP in
>>> MENTAL FLOSS magazine Vol.2 Issue 5 by Greg Barnhisel. Has anyone read
>>> it?
>>
>
> I purchased this magazine and read most of it, and I do not recommend
> it.  I struggle for vocabulary to describe it... it's trying to do the
> sound-bite version of erudition or something.  It's full of "fascinating
> facts", and no article is longer than 3 or 4 pages, the attitude is
> pretty relentlessly gee-whiz.  The piece on Pound is a flat
> under-written recital of the facts, with big-font pull-outs obviously
> inserted by someone who had read neither the article nor any Pound.  Any
> recital of the essentials on EP ought to elicit at least two chosen from
> a list including pity, contempt, and awe.  I left the magazine in a
> hotel room but my recollection is that not one word of the verse is
> excerpted.  It says Mauberley is "perhaps Pound's finest poem."  I can't
> imagine what kind of person invents such a magazine.
>
> --
> Cheers, Tim Bray
>         (ongoing fragmented essay: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
>