On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:10:14 -0600 Michael Alleman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > In the Donald Hall interview for Paris Review (reprinted in Hall's > Remembering Poets, p. 225), Pound says: > > "[...] And now what one has got with the camera is an enormous > correlation of particulars. That capacity for making contact is a > tremendous challenge to literature. It throws up the question of what needs > to be done and what is superfluous." Apart from the "correlation of particulars", I've sometimes wondered whether there was another similarity between Pound's approach and the theory of film-makers. The ideogrammic method has something in common with Eisenstein's theory of montage. A succession of images produces something which was not present in any individual image. Peter