Dear Dan Pearlman:
        As an unregenerate admirer of the Barb of Time, I want to thank
you for your replies to my ant-and-centaur suggestion. I find,by the
way,that I seemed to be identifying Pound with the centaur -- bad
writing. No, Pound is the ant, who self-deceivingly thinks he is the wise
(or powerful) centaur.
        You connection with the myrmidons seems to me if I may say so,
fanciful. For one thing, one does not think of a single myrmidon -- they
come to me as a horde.
        As for your later posting about the humility coming too late:I
don't feel there is any strong linear progression of feelings in the Pisan
Cantos that would prevent regressons -- though there is movement as the
sections proceed.
        And I want to thank you for repeating the earlier postings about
the line. I see that my idea has been anticipated, at least partly.
        So you are an adherent of the army theory.I have to admit I'm
unwilling to give up the idea that Pull down thy vanity expresses remorse
-- and the succeeding passage about Blunt is Pound sorting out his
feelings about himself, a continuation.
                                All the best,
                                        Jacob