"You can spot the bad critic when he starts with the poet instead of the poem." - Ez RE: > > well put..... criticisms like the one richard is responding to reveal more > about the critic than the subject under consideration. to criticize pound in > any meaningful way is to make him as honorable as one honestly can; only then > will the true magnitude of pound's malevolence come into focus. perhaps the > most devastating criticism of pound's embrasure of fascism was made by pier > paolo passolini in his last film: Salo: 120 Days of Sodom. > HOW COULD WE FORGET??? But as for me... I think there has been way too much grey matter used up on this grey matter... let's drop it, eh? Billy Marshall Stoneking