>From: bob scheetz <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
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>Subject: Re: Re Pound and Shakespeare
>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:21:29 -0500
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> >...the "Pull down thy vanity" passage....Any ideas about this?
>
>Jacob,    ...why not the obvious, usura?... metafor for the unprecedented
>vanity fair of bourgeois materialism?
>bob
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:40 PM
>Subject: Re Pound and Shakespeare
>
>
> > In response to Professor Gill's suggestion for news about current
> > projects, I expect my book, Winter Love: Ezra Pound and H.D., a study of
> > the relations between the two, to be published next year.
> >  And to fill in the dead air of the list, and return to an old
> > controversy, the "Pull down thy vanity" passage.
> >         To the extent that I have been following the discussion, opinion
> > has passed from the view that it is an expression of remorse to the idea
> > that EP is cursing out the US army. Some reflection suggests that he is
> > writing about the US as a whole --"rathe to destroy," etc But then there
> > is the view that these lines are spoken by the goddess of the "eyes" in
> > the preceding passage as a reproach to Pound, which reverses again. On
>the
> > other hand, would "eyes" speak -- symbolically or otherwise?
> >         Any ideas about this?


well, bob, how about the obvious? that when a man uses the word
"vanity", he means vanity .... especially when you know the relevant
bible passage

Vanitas vanitorum , y'all

alan

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