You'll have to take that matter up with Enrico himself, Carrol, should you ever meet on the astral plane. Tim Carrol Cox wrote: >Tim Romano wrote: > > >>" >>the ability of an American cow-boy who vaults onto the >>back of a fleeing horse. ..." >> >> > >Perhaps it should be "an American western movie star" rather than >cowboy? :-) I'm not sure how much jumping on horses actual ranch workers >did. > >Carrol > > > > >> --Enrico Pea >>(from the foreword to Pound's translation of his novel MOSCARDINO) >> >> > > >