Sorry for the length of my message: Thanks for your replies re: atonal music. I'm very surprised that being an admirer of Stravinksy Pound never had much of an encounter with the other half of the beast: Schoenberg. Max Ernst was also an admirer and admired by Igor, listed to him very loudly on a record player while building his home in America and dedicated a painting to him. Webern's compact phrases, strength of architecture and learning, and confident method might have been an inspiration to Pound. I know that Webern's music wasn't often performed tho. Two more question marks: Did pound ever seriously discus Darwin? I haven't noticed anything, and it almost seems like an oversight on his part. Darwin had a whole theory of metamorphosis that might have appealed to Pound's naturalism. I do know that Pound was sympathetic to a kind of saltationism, (that evolution was not gradual, but happened through sudden transformations). I'm also interested in any connections Pound might have had to Surrealism and Dada, and where I can follow those connections up more rigorously. I'm not expecting to discover much in terms of resonances, but I'm just as interested in conflicts. Surrealist always find some ancestry in Rimbaud, who Pound confusedly admired. My feeling is that Pound can have little to do with the "systematic disorientation of all the senses". Maybe someone can surprise me with an incisive book on the subject. The indirect connections to Futurism through Vorticism are obvious, but I'm more interested the Dada, Surrealist connection. Also, Pound mentions Max Ernst in an extremely complimentary light in ABC of Reading, something about his rendering psychological literature obsolete. I also know that he had some contact with Picabia and that he answered Breton and Eluard's (or maybe Aragon's) sex survey. Is it polite for me to launch all these questions? I have many more. -- Jesse Huisken.