In John Tytell's "Ezra Pound - The Solitary Volcano" he stated on page 338: "Two weeks before his eighty-seventh birthday he read at a small cafe for an intimate gathering of friends. The material included a sort of postscript to The Cantos: 're USURY I was out of focus, taking a symptom for a cause. The cause is AVARICE .' " Tytell goes on with "It all seemed like an apologia, ..." Does anyone disagree that Pound recanted on his lifelong stand on usury?