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:
>
>