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
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> 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