Canto XXXIV (top of page 166 in my handy ND paperback edition): "The fifth element: mud." said Napoleon. Chris Booth > ---------- > From: C.Brandon Rizzo > Reply To: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine > Sent: Sunday, March 28, 1999 3:51 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Kosovo > > Interesting how this list should turn to politics? > > As for Pound's poetic "eternal war / between light and mud"...It seems, > seems, > as if solid ground has turned to soup. Is not light, the nature of light, > to > be aggressive, to devour all darkness, penetrate all shadow, to dry up the > wet > ground, to restore terra firma? It seems, seems, as though NATO is a > REACTIONARY force, a so-called aggression moving in a natural course, no? > But... > any intellectualizing, any debate via this forum is null; there are dead > to be > counted. What can the average American, such as myself, truly know about > any > situation outside of our front-yards? CNN is certainly not the answer, > simply > a facsimile of detail. > > Anyway, I've put my limited opinion on the chopping block. > > C.Brandon > Boston >