Marie-Noelle. Not at all, not at all. Anyway a little sarcasm never hurt anybody. Might reform one, no? I am fascinated by yr story-in-progress. Yes the question I have been trying to answer ever since I awakened from the "common dream" that Yeats talked about, and which awakening, he said, as I recall, might send an artist to "dissolution and despair," is indeed WHAT in the name of the gods of hearth and home IS going on? I think that was the question EP set out to answer after WW I to avenge so many friends who died in that stupid bloodbath. Tom White > From: Marie-Noelle Little <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Sun, 2 Feb 2003 10:48:11 -0500 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Pound & Politics > > Tom White, > > I hope you didn't think I was sarcastic when referring to your > “Whatinell is going on?”….(which would be an excellent title for the > story I am writing, and which starts 52 years ago). > > Again, may I ask you if that was the very question you have been trying > to answer for > the last 52 years? > > Also, I was very interested to read about your W.W.II navy background. > During that war my great-uncle Admiral George Robert, High Commissioner > of Martinique and Guadeloupe, was in charge of keeping an eye on the > three hundred tons of gold he had stored in Martinique for the Banquet > de France (and the Vichy government). His refusal in 1942 to surrender > the precious eight thousand crates to de Gaulle (and the USA), was of > course followed by his return to France. The French didn't put him in > prison, though. > > You may, of course, wonder what that little story has to do with Ezra > Pound. It is somewhat linked to him getting out of "Loony Jail"... The > rest is history, and will be in my story! > > Marie-Noelle