Martin Deporres wrote: > >Give up Wei you EFFing git. The second law of thermodynamics applies once >again--you've just helped speed the degenerative cycle a bit. Instead of >promoting free discussion as you imply you have utterly impeded it. Just as >I said. Give up Wei. You lose. > >Now go try and recover your extremely narrow and unhappy life in the little >time you've remaining. > Messages of this kind are *far* more unwelcome in my Inbox than anything Wei has ever posted. At least Wei has a point of view which he is prepared to defend by argument and citation - admittedly sometimes at greater length and with more frequency than some people may consider appropriate on a list of this sort; but you don't *have* to read what he has to say if you don't want to. Wei's essential point, it seems to me, is most succinctly expressed in one of the essays on his website: "Pound's 'Paradiso' is in part defined by the fact that it contains Mussolini (just as his 'hell' is defined by the fact that it contains Churchill). No interpretation of Pound's religious philosophy is complete which does not take this aspect of his thought into account." I agree with that, but even if I didn't, I don't see why such views should be excluded from discussion in this forum. Richard Edwards ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com