>From: Tim Bray <[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: internet petition >Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:33:31 -0800 > >At 08:21 AM 21/03/02 -0800, charles moyer wrote: > > but > >that does not answer why Pound was and still is considered a dangerous > >individual. > >Who on earth could reasonably argue that EP is or even was >dangerous? He was a great poet with a sideline in bigotry and >deranged crackpottery - in his dreams he was dangerous. Bigots >as a class are dangerous, but really only when they can get >their opinions taken seriously. -Tim The title of the Ur-biography of Pound ... in the early years of the Pound Industry --= was: "This Difficult Individual" (by the inimitable Eustace Mullins) and, of course, the difficult can be dangerous ... at least to the "status quo" _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com