Leon,
    Could we then call Pound's sins venial?
Charles

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>From: Leon Surette <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound in Purgatory
>Date: Wed, May 23, 2001, 7:32 AM
>

> Charles Moyer asks, "Did Leon ever specify how long Pound would have to stay
> in Purgatory?"
>     I didn't make a guess, but we can be confident that he is still there,
> judging from the discussion.
>     Incidentally, one reviewer cannily observed that I was a closet
> apologist for putting him in Purgatory rather than Hell. I hadn't thought
> about that, but I guess I had come to the conclusion that he was not
> irrevocably damned. Given his Protestant background, I suppose there is no
> Hell or Purgatory for him, just beatification or oblivion. Neither seems to
> have been accorded his as yet.
>
> Leon Surette
> English Dept.
> University of Western Ontario
> London, Ont.
> N6A 3K7