Reply #18: NOTHING could make Ezra Pound popular. [View All]

[Nevernose]

I taste bile in my mouth every time I read the name. Mere words cannot express how much I hate Ezra-Freaking-Pound.

Here's a picture of his gravesite: if I could get to Venice to piss and/or dance on it, I would.


(Yeah, I've got issues. So what?)

I kind of like Camus, though.

And on a serious note: I don't get the "Bush making Camus popular" thing, unless it's a reference to his philosophy that I'm just too dense at the moment to get. I do know that when Oprah recommended "East of Eden," Steinbeck sales jumped sharply, and if Oprah can get a few hundred thousand people to read "As I Lay Dying," then more power to her. I thought I was the last person on Earth who actually LIKED William Faulkner...

Strange But True:
http://www2.oprah.com/obc_classic/featbook/asof/obc_featbook_asof_main.jhtml