>From: Jack Savage <[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: Re Pound and Shakespeare >Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:16:09 -0800 > >>From: bob scheetz <[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: Re Pound and Shakespeare >>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 19:21:29 -0500 >> >> >...the "Pull down thy vanity" passage....Any ideas about this? >> >>Jacob, ...why not the obvious, usura?... metafor for the unprecedented >>vanity fair of bourgeois materialism? >>bob >> >> >> >> >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: Jacob Korg <[log in to unmask]> >>To: <[log in to unmask]> >>Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:40 PM >>Subject: Re Pound and Shakespeare >> >> >> > In response to Professor Gill's suggestion for news about current >> > projects, I expect my book, Winter Love: Ezra Pound and H.D., a study >>of >> > the relations between the two, to be published next year. >> > And to fill in the dead air of the list, and return to an old >> > controversy, the "Pull down thy vanity" passage. >> > To the extent that I have been following the discussion, >>opinion >> > has passed from the view that it is an expression of remorse to the >>idea >> > that EP is cursing out the US army. Some reflection suggests that he is >> > writing about the US as a whole --"rathe to destroy," etc But then >>there >> > is the view that these lines are spoken by the goddess of the "eyes" in >> > the preceding passage as a reproach to Pound, which reverses again. On >>the >> > other hand, would "eyes" speak -- symbolically or otherwise? >> > Any ideas about this? > > >well, bob, how about the obvious? that when a man uses the word >"vanity", he means vanity .... especially when you know the relevant >bible passage > >Vanitas vanitorum , y'all > >alan > >_________________________________________________________________ >Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com merde.... vanitatum _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com