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"Writers Corner" sounds like some kind of clerical purgatory anyway, where
the writers are expected to face the wall and remain silent.
"The death of any great nation is always a suicide." -Arnold Toynbee
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>From: Tom White <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Pound's nomination to Writers Corner
>Date: Tue, Mar 4, 2003, 11:13 PM
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> I can't imagine Pound would want, alive or dead, to keep company with the
> kind of people controlling access to this "Writers Corner." He has made
> quite sure that it will be centuries before commonplace, conventional, and
> stupid people will be able to be comfortable in his presence or do anything
> but shriek and run from the room when his name is mentioned. Meanwhile we
> live amid the final rendering and grinding down of the injustices he railed
> against. It was Emerson I think who said a man is bigger than a city, surely
> he is bigger than a cathedral. Tom White
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>> From: Jennifer Wilson <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 21:54:54 EST
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Pound's nomination to Writers Corner
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