It's been years since I read the biogs, too, Frederick. But what you say
sounds familiar. Poor Pound. He really was in a wood of his own.
David Bircumshaw
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Pollack" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 7:37 PM
Subject: Re: ma questa
> david.bircumshaw wrote:
> >
> > >one recalls
> > > the remark Mussolini made, which Pound so treasured, when Pound gave
him
> > > a copy of the early Cantos - "Ma questa, e divertente!"
> >
> > Frederick
> >
> > I'm genuinely puzzled here. I always thought that Pound had but a single
> > audience with Mussolini at which the dictator made some suitably polite
> > remarks about the copy of the Cantos which the poet presented him but
that
> > Il Duce never read the work. While Pound went away convinced that
Mussolini
> > was a Renaissance man and fully conversant on Social Credit, such was
the
> > impaired state of the poet's mind at the time.
> >
> > David Bircumshaw
> >
> > Leicester, England
> >
> > Home Page
> >
> > A Chide's Alphabet
> >
> > Painting Without Numbers
> >
> > www.paintstuff.20m.com/index.htm
> >
> >
> It's been years since I read the biographies - but as I recall the Boss
> leafed through it, squared his jaw, made a show of brief but deep
> concentration, and uttered the remark that P included in the Cantos
> (adding "thus getting the point before the literati got there").
>
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