and it anticipates the fanatical drone of [Ezra Pound's] "Canto XIV," in which Londoners are described as living in a place full of "financiers/lashing them with steel wires" and: The slough of unamiable liars,
bog of stupidities,
malevolent stupidities, and stupidities,
the soil living pus, full of vermin,
dead maggots begetting live maggots,
slum owners,
usurers squeezing crab-lice...
from Powells: Review-A-Day: Ezra Pound: Poet Volume I: The Young Genius 1885-1920
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