>Are the 'Schaschan' to whom Pound alludes at the end of broadcast #43 (31 >May 1942) entitled 'Brain Trust: Second Spasm' --"Who are the Schaschan? >I ask you?"-- the _Shashai_ mentioned at the end of the Book of Ezra? > >Tim Romano I think Pound is thinking of the chinese term sha-shang, meaning to kill and wound, inflicting causalties on etc, and can be used (especially in classical chinese) in a nominal form, too. (I do not know the broadcast, would murderer or so be suited?)