At 7:46 AM -0500 2/27/3, Marie-Noelle Little wrote:
>At the liquor store,
>I was told that in New York they are taking French wine off the shelves
>as fast as they can.

Well, up here in Maine it's ten-below Fahrenheit, and I'm taking French
wine off the shelves as fast as I can afford to!

>On the Pound list,
>I found out that French philosophers may be "roundly hated just because
>they're French"
>and that "anti-French sentiment is powerful" in the US.

Don't believe everything you hear on this list. Many, here and elswhere
around the world, are applauding France as the courageous voice of reason.
As for the other question, Jon's, about reading Pound through the French
theorists, maybe start with Pisan Cantos via Foucault's Discipline &
Punish? I learned recently that the steel cage Pound was kept in at Pisa is
still the standard Army design, and is being used at Guantanamo Bay for
those prisoners. Surveillance, Panopticon. Poindexter, Ashcroft. Vive la
France! Sylvester (and you can find a lot of Pollets in the Paris phonebook)