Tim, You are frequenting too many technology newsgroups. You seem to have picked up a case of Troll's Disease. Tim Romano At 08:16 AM 8/2/01 -0700, Tim Bray wrote: >At 09:08 AM 01/08/01 -0400, Stephen van Beek wrote: > > >I do believe nobody should read Pound who has not spent some serious time > >with Homer and Dante, at the very least. > >I have trouble with that. I find almost all of Homer to >be facile and irritating (most of his lead characters are >at the end of the day flaming assholes), and Dante puts me >to sleep. Doesn't get in the Cantos' way. > >Now if you'd said that a good grasp of the framework >of mythology and of medieval history really help, you'd be >on safer ground. -Tim