In a message dated 08/10/2000 3:05:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << My point is that Pound said he was a fascist (REPEATEDLY). You seem to think that if Pound says he "cared for the poor" such a statement can be put forward as evidence indicating that he is not a fascist. >> and you seem to think, myopically, that because Pound said he was a fascist he couldn't have believed in virtue, or that he couldn't have cared for anyone. no one, despite your claims, has said that Pound wasn't a fascist, a point that's been made so many times that one wonders about your intellectual honesty in pursuing this lie. Pound was a fascist, and he was also frequently a humane human being. that you can't understand this is your problem. jb....