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From: "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:04 AM
Subject: Re: "Signor B."
> Ah, the ending, there. I've been reading Blaser, partly on Blake & 'the
> imagination,' so that hit home.
>
> As did the whole thing. I've never interviewed my nightmares, but it seems
> like it might help...>
>
> Doug
> On 11-Jun-07, at 8:08 PM, Frederick Pollack wrote:
>
Thanks, Doug! The weakness of nightmares is that they love to be
interviewed. They preen for the camera. Remembering this can protect one.
I've regarded myself as a follower of Blake since taking Bloom's seminar in
'66. I have Blaser's essays in their earlier, unexpanded edition; dip into
it occasionally and am always impressed. And I like his poetry. But it's
funny - theoretical agreement never makes me want to alter my style in the
slightest. I shrug at Spicer, for example. Same is true when I read any
poetic theorizing, however strong.
A note on the "Master" in my poem. Baron Julius Evola was real. The
Fascists were too tame for him, too liberal. His big book was Revolt
Against the Modern World (1934, updated postwar). Erudition vaster than
Spengler's and as spurious. Liked the SS; they seemed to herald the samurai
/ Kshatriya order he (and, he felt, humanity) yearned for. They checked him
out, decided he was too creepy. A "spiritual," not biological, racism and
antisemitism, yet otherwise comprehensive. Refused to do something as
vulgar as go to an air-raid shelter and was crippled by a bomb from a B-17.
Wish it had been better aimed. Lived another 30 years and was the doyen of
postwar neofascists like Signor B. See his handbook, Men Among the Ruins;
up there with Sayyid Qutb. Tantrism and other Eastern lore were his major
area of study; you'll find a lot of his books about this on Amazon. Which
is why Hindu schwaermerei is currently part of the Eurofascist stew. (See
also Goodrich-Clarke's Hitler's Priestess.) Died in '74, but his soul goes
marching on.
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