tim, i can see the various personnae ep assumed qua ego scriptor; but, can't see anything archetypal ...as for example whitman's american adam, or emerson's jeremiah. how do you mean ep's "archetypal self"? another american adam? bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Romano <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:39 AM Subject: No place of grace > Bob, > With his discovery of the archetypal nature of the Self > Pound progressed from Solipsism into Nature and Creation > to rediscover 'the green world' thereby completing the circle. > This universal place of grace he saw threatened > by the relentless mechanization of human labor > by the rapacious exploitation of natural resource > by the endless barrage of soul-less advertisements > and other projections whose goal was destruction > of the inner-sanctum > that we may become insatiable hedonistic consumers > who show up for work on time > and pay every tax > and cheerfully submit our selves to the machine. > > Fascism was salvific for Pound for the paradoxical reasons you imply. The > directed will seemed indeed a manful remedy for the smothering machine. > Fascism projected an image of the nobility of the artisan versus the > dehumanized slave-labor-units of soviet socialism. It seemed to hold the > promise of no more red-tape ... a government that would govern least, > organized around the collective will of the skilled trades. Imagine how > powerful its attraction for a liberty-techne' freak like Pound. > > Tim Romano