Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Great Regulars: As [David] Moody says [of Ezra Pound]:

"He had called for slaughter in a war without truce, meaning it metaphorically. The real thing seemed to him the final stupidity of the world he had wanted to destroy, a mindless murdering contest between detestable 'teutonic atavism' and 'unsatisfactory Democracy'."

from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: Waging war on the sublime

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