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>With regard to Michael Kicey's post, I'd just like to add that,
>according to the famous "Jimmy the Bartender," Pound was "a white
>winer."  In other words, Hemingway's set didn't regard Pound as a real
>drinker.
 
 
Maybe he should have been.  I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy.
 
-John
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