Michael, You wrote <are there fictional characters of Pound's own making in the Cantos - or is every name i meet someone i could go look up on Wikipedia> The answer is the latter. For any easy and illuminating digest of this try Brandon Keresy's hypertext of Canto 45 at http://www.flashpointmag.com/canto45.htm Also, I deal with Pound and hypertext in an article delightfully entitled *Poetic Giants Caught In The Web ** * *vs.* ** *40 Millimeters and a Mole: Or If You Malign the High-Modernists from the Position of "Obscurity" Nowadays, You're Just a Lazy Fuck! * at http://www.flashpointmag.com/40mill.htm Carlo Parcelli Michael Scott wrote: > i came late to office life but found that a regular lunch hour gave me > an opportunity to read fat books slowly > > so - in keeping with the times - i've begun on The Cantos > > if no one objects i'm going to treat this list as my oracle - here's > the first lazy question > > the initial pages read like a ticker tape parade of history - are > there fictional characters of Pound's own making in the Cantos - or is > every name i meet someone i could go look up on Wikipedia > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.10.12/1909 - Release Date: 1/22/2009 7:08 AM > >