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Ezra Pound
Via Marsala 12-5
Rapallo
Anno XII

My curiousity was aroused by the
british boycot of economic discussion
in 1918 or thereabout, and I have been
at least LOOKING about me, ever since.

I will ask Orage if he still has a spare copy
of one of my more recent Cantos.... probably
containing nothing you don't know.

Concealment of knowledge of the means of
distribution is criminal sabotage on the
GRAND scale / mere mechanical sabotage and
street riots are NOTHING in comparison.

The disease of language itself is our affair
as writers. Even that is taboo ...

(a few weeks ago)
The migit X. tried to
put on man's clothes and offered to answer 12 questions
in the English Review.

I sent him six and he died on it.
These were questions mostly re/ the betrayal of the language
itself.

Degenerated into a collection of indefinite middles,
newspaper blah incapable of registering or transmitting ANY
idea with sufficient definiteness to be useful.

If any of this is obscure, or seems too lunatic I will try to
elucidate. No use, if one has a dead wire, and no use telling
men what they know already.

France is a more perfect portrait of capitalist
state with implications as usual, day by day, little by
little.

Until last spring I found NO evidence that anyone
there was awake to what was going on/ I mean among
the people I meet in Paris. Last spring it HAD begun to
leak.

It is, I think, very important to treat Comité des Forges
not as cause by at [but as] symptom.

cordially yours

Ezra Pound