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10-30-2015, 02:28 PM
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Yeah, but he could dance.
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10-30-2015, 03:17 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by James Brancheau
Yeah, but he could dance.
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But who can't?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waGC7Vuhh6w
Last edited by Andrew Mandelbaum; 10-30-2015 at 03:23 PM.
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10-30-2015, 03:37 PM
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Couldn't download from my phone, Andrew, but got the idea. That Woody Allen is quite possibly a paedophile doesn't affect my judgement of his work. Allen got me through a particularly rough patch in my life. I Do Not Agree With Mr. Pound's Views. And how many times am I going to have to say that now? And why should I?
Last edited by James Brancheau; 11-02-2015 at 07:54 AM.
Reason: "quite possibly" is fair, I think
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10-30-2015, 04:15 PM
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I agree with Michael entirely. And James, if Pound had given us "Broadway Danny Rose" I would still think it a very fine movie. And if Pound had been a great humanitarian and champion of justice and equality, I would still not wish to read the Cantos.
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10-30-2015, 04:32 PM
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Broadway Danny Rose is better... Blue Jasmine was surprisingly good. Match Point was horribly predictable.
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10-30-2015, 05:34 PM
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I'm trying to get this to start at 3:24. If it doesn't work, just skip forward to that point... 
https://youtu.be/v3WALMb5jyg?t=3m24s
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10-30-2015, 05:53 PM
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These videos don't move me. I think of Pound's work as mostly falling into three categories: 1) his early poems--generally pretentious, often laughably anachronistic, imitations of poems of the past; 2) his "translations"---primarily his racist pillaging of the great Chinese shih tradition, although he didn't really know Propertius either; and 3) his later incoherent poems--which are invariably infused with the venom and incoherence of his loathesome worldview.
I know that's heresy for modernists, so prepare the stake and gather the logs. The Ezperor has no clothes--that's what I believe.
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10-30-2015, 06:03 PM
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Ah, so nice to see there are others of Robert Graves' and my opinion.
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10-30-2015, 06:16 PM
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How refreshingly blunt about the man, Michael -- and, as the coup de grace, Roger, about the 'poems'.
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