Ezra Pound was never in touch with Dr. Mengele.
 
                                                Tim Redman
 
On Thu, 29 Jan 1998 19:51:48 -0500 Jonathan Morse <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
 
> At 11:23 AM 1/29/98 -0800, Bill Freind wrote:
> >A few days ago, someone (sorry, forgot who) mentioned Michael Lind's book
> >_Up from Conservatism_, which suggests Pound financed some of Mullins'
> >work. I was surprised it wasn't mentioned *why* Lind talks about Mullins.
> >
> >Briefly, Lind is showing the sources for televangelist and erstwhile
> >presidential candidate Pat Robertson's book _The New World Order_.
>
> Right, and _Up from Conservatism_ is a good book. But my concern on this
> list was with Pound.
> However, as long as we're talking politics, here's a quote from Mullins,
> pp. 320-21:
>
> "During the 1956 elections, [Pound] called to my attention the commissar or
> foetus type of public official that seems to have been produced by the
> modern state. It is characterized by a round head, usually bald, a petulant
> mouth, and the formless features of a new-born baby. In July, 1959, he
> wrote to me,
>
> "'Look up Lavater, 1745-1801, "inventor of physiognomic studies," esp.
> criminal TYPES.
>
> "'my impression that he set almost at lowest level the foetus type . . .'.
>
> "I promptly did some research, and found, to my surprise, that a number of
> great leaders in recent years could be classified as the foetus type, or
> those who have not been fully formed in the womb. Such people seem capable,
> indeed fated, to cause great harm to others. These atavistic types are
> characterized by slight development of the pilar system, low cranial
> capacity, great frequency of Wormian bones, early closing of the cranial
> sutures, and a lemurine appendix. The type is round-faced, with slightly
> protruding eyes and a vacant grin."
>
> The pictures in _This Difficult Individual, Ezra Pound_ demonstrate that
> Mullins' own pilar system was in fine shape; he was quite a hairy young
> man. How he got clearance to dissect the bodies of great leaders he doesn't
> say. But one does wonder whether Pound kept in touch with Dr. Mengele after
> the war.
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Morse
> Department of English
> University of Hawaii at Manoa
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