In a message dated 1/5/03 10:27:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< Well-said, but I don't think it holds water.  I am one of those awful
 people who find gems scattered through the Cantos unequaled elsewhere in
 the canon of poetics, and who feel that large parts of the Cantos are in
 fact unintellegible rubbish.  I would really like to see through to "the
 essential challenge of the piece as a whole" which is one reason I hang
 out here, but so far haven't.  In part because I'm baffled at the
 thousands of lines of
 obscurantist-take-on-forgettable-bits-of-US-history that seem so
 poetically vacuous - it would be nice if there were a framework on which
 they were mounted that better exposed their virtues if any.  Please
 enlighten us. -Tim

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