"Only shadows enter my tent as men pass between me and the sunset" Canto LXXX Nikolay, Very good comments - honestly felt- and with a magnanimity of spirit often lacking these days especially here in a country still "bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn", where there are those who continue to drag Ezra down into the hell of their confusion because they resent his flight to the Elysium of Love and Beauty. But what a futile inquisition they perpetuate on the dead poet. "Nothing but death, said Turgenev (Tiresias) is irreparable." Canto LXXX And how sublime his words remain as antidote to their calculated calumny chosen surreptitiously in defense of usury by usury's toadies with tenure. "And the russe bringing all the "Smoke" of Turgenev "Are" as Uncle William said "the daughters of Memory" Canto 95 "The more I read your poetry, the more I am convinced it is the best of its time. And your economics are right. We see it more and more in Vietnam. You showed us who's making a profit out of war" - Allen Ginsberg, "A Conversation between Ezra Pound and Allen Ginsberg" (1968) CDM