Tim,
     re-reading your In Exile, 
themes of loneliness,  wonder, memory, piety, fatalism...
and thinking on the odysseus theme in the cantos
compared to homer, joyce, tennyson...
...came to realize how unclear pound's usage is.
seems he's really more the adventurer,
maybe had better used herodotus?
anyway,
and not to impose, 
but seeing as how 
you must have pondered this metaphor deeply;
would like to hear your view of pounds notion
of the essence of the wanderer/odysseus story.
 
thanks,
bob
 
 
 
 
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]>
  To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
  Date: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 7:44 AM
  Subject: Re: "The Pound Era"
 
 
  James,
 
  Pound wrote:
 
  "I believe that a light from Eleusis persisted throughout the middle ages and set beauty in the song of Provence and of Italy."
 
  You should also read "Religio" to get a sense of what Pound meant when he talked about man becoming god. He is not being facetious (though the tone of the piece _ is _ playful) when he writes:
 
  When does a  man become a god?
   When he enters one of these states of mind.
 
  Tim Romano