Oh and another thing. Lewis was half British, half American. So you're both right about that. RE >From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Pound / Wyndham Lewis / Fascism >Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 07:23:30 -0400 > >Wei, >Where does the British writer Wyndham Lewis "fully endorse" fascism? >Lewis >explicitly states that he prefers the "muddle" of democracy; if memory >serves (it has been almost 15 years since I read his novels, criticism, and >polemical works) he makes this statement in The Art of Being Ruled. His >1939 book, The Hitler Cult, is hardly an endorsement of fascism. >Tim Romano > > > >Wei claims: > > > > .... But Pound was the only major American literary figure (excepting > > perhaps Lewis) who fully endorsed fascism. While many European > > intellectuals were fleeing fascism (or supporting the underground, like > > Sartre and Camus), Pound went to tremendous lengths to give his moral >and > > intellectual energy to propagating the fascist ideology. No other >American > > or English literary figure went to the full level of commitment that >Pound > > did. Even Martin Heidegger, who lived and worked in Germany under the > > Nazis, and who endorsed Nazism in several speeches, did so in a rather > > lukewarm way. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com