Good word to use -- "generosity" -- one of Pound's greatest attributes. Cheers, Tim Redman -----Original Message----- From: - Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 6:30 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Diane and David and EP and usury Richard Seddon wrote: > > Oh for God's sake get a grip on it. Huh! Dirk seems to have a pretty good grip on the operations of power in the U.S. Actually, the _Cantos_ are more not less impressive as an illumination of history if one escapes from Pound's own economic and political illusions, particularly the illusion that "money" has a reality of its own independently of human productive activity. His quite unacceptable exuce for history _is_ much more than an excuse for "ego, scriptor cantilenae" (I can't locate the exact line now, and I don't think my memory of it is quite correct, but it's close: Adolf, blind from perception, but there are those whose blindness comes from inside. Perhaps someone can locate the 'original' of this. Pound was indeed blind from perception. There is an immense generosity that weaves through the Cantos - "The enormous tragedy of the dream in the peasant's bent shoulders." Carrol > > > > Won't it be great when the U.S. military is completely privatized? Then > > they won't even have to have a fake president lie to Congress in order > > to accomplish their global economic aims; they can just go do it. > > Strong-man economics. Completely free avarice. I.e., anarcho-capitalism: > > capitalism without law. > > > > Dirk > >