It sits there, on my book shelf, taunting me. Each night, I pick it up, to get stuck. Greek, Basque, Ideograms. /lit/ what we have here is a challenge. Let us lay our powers together, for good, and break this fucker down.

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Anonymous Wed Jul 14 13:40:15 2010 No.913386 [Reply] [Original]

It sits there, on my book shelf, taunting me.
Each night, I pick it up, to get stuck.
Greek, Basque, Ideograms.

/lit/ what we have here is a challenge. Let us lay our powers together, for good, and break this fucker down.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 13:43:15 2010 No.913400 Ah, Ezra Pound. I have a copy of his Complete works, somewhere. I really do not understand the appeal, except for in some places. The man was a great scholar no doubt.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 13:45:15 2010 No.913408 Basque? WTF? Wasn't he Irish or English or something? What's he up to?

Anonymous Wed Jul 14 13:47:15 2010 No.913420

OP: I find the pieces of work that I have read fairly banal, but spammit, this... monstrosity of a poem is sitting there, mocking us in its smug superiority. Look at me, see me sitting here, I, naught but a poem, can lay waste to that landscape you call your brain with naught but my massive scholastic wang.

Its not the value of the words, its the fact that a gauntlet has been thrown.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 13:49:15 2010 No.913431 >>913408 I lol'd. Oh well OP, how about starting with something other than Cantos? Some of my favorite poems by Pound are The Alchemist, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley and those from Cathay. I probably wouldn't approach The Cantos without an annotated edition.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 13:50:15 2010 No.913435 File: 11 KB, 492x297, gallery_12453_15_5908.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] We demand satisfaction, Ezra!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 13:52:15 2010 No.913445 >>913431 OP: I have them qued, I just first need to finish with The Kalevala. Finnish is a beast of a language.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 14:11:15 2010 No.913553 >>913435 I do say, bring it on, quijibo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 14 14:12:15 2010 No.913555 File: 35 KB, 314x460, ezra_pound.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] My words precede me.

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