Dr. Pearlman, I ran a similar idea across the director of my thesis (50 page) and it seemed to interest him. I've been reading _Cantos_ with this view in mind and have formulated a kind of "wine, women and song" attitude alternating with benevolent goddess / interference goddess (Kwanon / Circe). The not-so recent discussion on the list concerning the process (tao); has led me to consider an overall yin element with which Pound may or may not be concerned. It's all very rough at the moment; I'm throwing this out there since the subject's come up. If such a study has not been done, it's worth at least a term paper, I'd think.