I can't quite work out how we got on to the subject of cooking, but now we're there, I'm hungry for more. Was Pound fond of food? I believe his eating habits at St Elizabeth's were excentric: sweets and little stocks of biscuits etc. I seem to recall reading that either he or Olga Rudge cooked deliciously simple meals in Rapallo. In London he was fond of chop-houses and a T-bone crops up in the Pisan Cantos. Food plays a part in the Circean and Ovidean parts of the Cantos but that is not necessarily indicative of a personal predeliction as it's there in the sources. We were recently informed or reminded on this list of his tulip-eating antics. I wonder whether anyone has anything more substantial to add to these thoughts? Richard Edwards >From: Jacob Korg <[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: Re: cooking in a station of the metro >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:43:14 -0700 > >Yes, let's not have any more errors. My version of "Metro" was from >memory, and it would be best not to assume that "wet, black" went >together.And the colon is certainly of prime importance.It has become a >semicolon in The Collected Shorter Poems, which I think is another error. > Jacob Korg > >On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jonathan P. Gill wrote: > > > As regards Pound and food: there was a good paper on Pound and food by > > one of our Franco-American colleagues at the conference in Brantome a >few > > years back. > > > > As regards In a Station of the Metro: Let's not introduce more errors, >at > > least not by mistake! There was a colon after "crowd" in the first > > version, which you can see reprinted in facsimile in Poetry and >Prose--my > > library also has bound volumes of Poetry (actually, they seem to be > > versions of the originals reprinted for library use in the 1920s). > > > > Jonathan Gill > > Columbia University > > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.