Michael,

You wrote <are there fictional characters of Pound's own making in the 
Cantos - or is every name i meet someone i could go look up on Wikipedia>

The answer is the latter. For any easy and illuminating digest of this 
try Brandon Keresy's hypertext of Canto 45 at 

http://www.flashpointmag.com/canto45.htm

Also, I deal with Pound and hypertext in an article delightfully 
entitled  *Poetic Giants Caught In The Web **
*
*vs.*

**
*40 Millimeters and a Mole:
Or
If You Malign the High-Modernists
from the
Position of "Obscurity" Nowadays,
You're Just a Lazy Fuck! *

at

http://www.flashpointmag.com/40mill.htm


Carlo Parcelli



Michael Scott wrote:
> i came late to office life but found that a regular lunch hour gave me 
> an opportunity to read fat books slowly
>
> so - in keeping with the times - i've begun on The Cantos
>
> if no one objects i'm going to treat this list as my oracle - here's 
> the first lazy question
>
> the initial pages read like a ticker tape parade of history - are 
> there fictional characters of Pound's own making in the Cantos - or is 
> every name i meet someone i could go look up on Wikipedia
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