Hey Billy,
Sorry you didn't get a response from those who asked for your
play. I wasn't one of them. So if I didn't ask for it, and
others didn't, why do you offer it? And if you wanted anyone
to read it, why didn't you send it in readable format? I am
in receipt of your next message, in which you give the URL
where your play is posted. If I have time, I'll read it. I'm
completing a novel right now. I'm sure other hackademics on
this list have had other similar crapademic projects to occupy
them this summer. ... But hey, maybe I should send my 141,000-
word novel to all our list-members as an attachment: it must
be influenced by Pound, since I was, and I wrote it. Hey,
wow, what an idea!
==Dan the Slackademic
At 03:42 PM 8/18/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear Daniel:
>
>I am sorry you received an unasked-for attachment that
>was unreadable by your computer. It happens. I sent the
>ms to you because I thought you were interested in Pound
>and work by others about Pound. I thought this was a forum
>for sharing ideas... not mere sound bytes in cyber space...
>
>I am a published poet and playwright of twenty years
>standing, one of the lepers from that group of people which
>Pound championed all his life... NOT, thankfully, an academic.
>I should think serious Pound scholars, such as yourself, would
>have an interest in the poetry and/or plays of "Poundian"
>poets who have researched their topic (i.e.: Pound) and written
>a significant piece of work on the subject. SIXTEEN WORDS FOR
>WATER has been produced by professional theatre companies
>round teh world and has been the subject of many essays and
>articles, (e.g.: Stewart Donovan in the Antigonish Review called
>the play "wonderful theatre and it will remain for a long time the
>best dramatic portrayal of the grim and tragic figure that Ezra
>Pound became in the last quarter of his extraordinary life."
>
>While most of the copies of this play have been sent to
>members of this forum at their request... I have sent it to some
>because of comments made re: Pound, and because I thought it
>might be something which would add another dimension to
>comments made. The most curious part of this whole process
>(for me) has been the singular silence with which this play has
>been greeted (or not greeted) ... the silence is rather eerir,
>coming as it does from those who profess intellectual
>curiosity in what their colleagues (poets, critics and
>others) are writing NOW about Pound. Some of you have
>promised to respond... but as yet, after nearly two months,
>I have heard from no one. Either about this play, or about
>the lengthy brief on Paideuma and the Disjunctive
>Syllogism which I posted. Instead, I hear garble about
>conferences and housecleaning... the higher maggotry.
>Surely, Pound was right about the anthill being broken. We
>are all johnnys-come-lately to that last flailing. Strange salve
>to have to soothe oneself with tghe likes of Whoitehead on
>this problem: namely, "The secondhandness of the
>learned world is the secret of its mediocirty..."
>
>Please accept my unheart-felt apologies Mr Pearlman
>for any real distress I may have caused you and your
>computer.
>
>Best regards
>
>Billy Marshall Stoneking
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Daniel Pearlman <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 1999 2:36 PM
>Subject: garbage rec'd from Stoneking
>
>
>> Dear Mr. Stoneking:
>>
>> Please have mercy on listmembers. Not only did I not ask for
>> your lengthy ms., which has screwed up my computer for fifteen minutes,
>> but what I got, by way of your "attachment," as you call it, is
>> endless unbroken pages of this crap:
>>
>>
>
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