26, Christ speaks of Paracletus as the
intercessor
or comforter.
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
.
ginnocchion": I, "Why must it go on1 If I fall .
.
.
/ I will not fall on my knees.
" [Pound supplied MSB with a line that preceded this: "I am married to Capello"; and a note: Defiance when they were trying to crush free spirit in Vienna] .
55. Bianca Capello: 11542? 1587, mistress of Francesco de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany, who married her in 1579 and proclaimed her Grand Duchess of Tuscany four months later. She was said to have been poisoned by Francesco's brother, Ferdinand. The situa- tion of Clara Petacci may have reminded Pound of this response.
56. the key: The notebooks for Canto 74 at Yale reveal that the key lists Chinese books, the Analects of Mencius and Chung Yung, as well as a few Western authors (Cocteau, Wyndham Lewis, Frobenius), and books on specific subjects: economics, history, and monetary theory [for details see Pai, 12? 1] .
57. Lute of Gassir: The introductory song to the legend collection the Dausi. Gassire, son of Nganamba Fasa, was king of the Fasa tribe. The story of Gassire's envy and its consequences [cf. 134 below] is told in the legend collection, which deals with the history of Wagadu. A summary is given by Frobenius in Erlebte Erdteile [cf. GD, "Pound and Frobenius," LL, Motive, 33-59].
58. Hooo: Af. dial. "Hail! " [cf. 134 belowJ 59. Fasa: A tribe of heroes in N Africa.
60. lion-coloured pup: Prob. a dog running loose in the DTC.
74/427-428
61. les six potences . . . absoudre: F, "the six gallows / Absolve, may you absolve us all" [Villon, Epitaphe de Vii/on: Mais Priez Dieu que taus nous vueille absouldre] .
62. Barabbas: The bandit held in jail at the time of the arrest of Christ.
63. Hemingway: Ernest H. , 1898-1961, the American novelist Pound knew during his Paris years.
64. Antheil: George A. , 1900-1959, Ameri? can composer and pianist who was spon~ sored with several other modern musicians by Pound during the 20s. Pound wrote about him in Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony.
65. Thos. Wilson: A Negro "trainee" at the DTC [ef. 257 below].
66. Mr K. : DTC trainee.
67. Lane: DTC trainee.
68. Butterflies, mint: Paradisal cues [48:42, 50; 79/487; Frags. :38]. Even in hell or purgatory, the paradise-oriented man is conscious of his divine end. Pound takes the metaphor from Dante: "0 proud Chris- tians . . . do You not know that we are worms, born to form the angelic butterfly"
[Pur. X, 121-125J.
69. Lesbia's sparrows: Clodia, wife of the consul MeUelus Celer, was a notorious profligate celebrated by Catullus, who referred to her as Lesbia. Catullus 2, lines 1-4 may be translated: "Sparrow, thing of delight to her I love / Often she plays with you and holds you in her lap, / Offering her fingertip to your eager beak, / Asking for your darting nip".
74/428-429
own poetry based in part on Bernart de
Ventadorn's La terns vai even e vire ["Time goes and comes and turns"]. Also echo of Dante's era gia' lora che volge il disio ["It was now the hour that turns back the longing"] [Pur. VIII, IJ.
72. Ussel: Town in Correze Department, S central France, near Ventadour. Pound had fond memories of it and its 15th- and 16th-century houses. The Hotel des Ducs de Ventadour has on its facade an inscrip- tion honoring the last troubadours.
367
Chinese goddess of Mercy; the compassion? ate bodbisattva [90:29].
82. Linus: St. Linus, pope 167-76. His name appears first in all lists of the bishops of Rome. Earlier glosses [cf. 35, 45 above] and several of those following this one indicate that Pound was attending mass.
83. C1etus: St. Cletus (or Anacletus), pope ? 76? 88.
84. Clement: St. Clement I, pope 188-971. Also known as Clement of Rome. The names of the first three bishops of Rome appear after the names of some of the apostles as the beginning of a list of early church fathers in Canon I of the Mass.
85. the great scarab: Egyptian symbol of fertility and rebirth which was usually carved on basalt or green stone [Hastings, Ency. of Rei. & Ethics, vol. 11, 223-227]. Also conceived as one form of the sun god [Tay, Pai, 4? 1,53]. The design on the back of the priest's chasuble at mass suggested the idea of the scarab [M de RJ .
86. plowed . . . early: At the first conjunc- tion of the sun and moon in spring, the emperor, the Son of Heaven, had to plough the field of God with his own hands, and at late spring, "The empress offers cocoons to the Son of Heaven" [52/258].
87. virtu: I, "creative power" [36:2].
88. Ideogram: Hsien [M2692]: "display, be illustrious. " Pound uses as "tensile light descending" and relates it to the Ming ideogram [M4534]: "The sun and moon, the total light process . . . hence, the intelli- gence. . . . Refer to Scotus Erigena, Gros- seteste and the notes on light in my Cavalcanti" [CON, 20; Michaels, Pai, 1? 1, 37? 54; CFT, Pai, 2? 3, 458].
89_ "sunt lumina": L, "are lights. " From "'Omnia, quae sunt, lumina sunt" [trans. on line 22, p. 429 of the text as "all things that are are lights"] . Passage derives from Erigena as quoted by Gilson [La Philosophie du Moyen Age, 2d ed. , 1944, p. 214; cf. LE, 160].
70. voiceless . . . roosts:
the Wagadu legend; Pound relates the four gates of the legend to the four corner guard towers at the DTC [cf. 57 above; 96 below]. The "voiceless" may be the drum message about the tempest in Baluba [38:41].
71. el triste . . . rivolge: I, "the sad thought turns / toward Ussel. To Ventadour / goes the thought, the time turns back. " Pound's
74. Limoges: Manufacturing and commer- cial city of Haute-Vienne Department, W central France, not far from Ventadour. Perhaps the polite salesman is the same one celebrated by T. S. Eliot in "Gerontion" as Mr. Silvero. Pound said that all the trouba? dours who knew letters or music had been taught "at the abbeys of Limoges" [SR, 91].
75. which city: Fang identifies the forgot? ten city as Les Eyzies, a small town near which "are numerous sites of pre-historic Europeans" [II, 223J.
76. Urochs: Aurochs, the European bison [cf. 152 belowJ.
77. Mme Pujol: A landlady in Provence. Excideuil, between Limoges and Perigueux, was the place where Mme. Pujol or Poujol kept an inn. Pound told HK that Madame would be dead but the inn would still be there.
78. white bread: Observation on the adul? teration of food by additives. Cf. "is thy bread ever more of stale rags / " [45/229] .
79. Mt Taishan: [cf. 46 above].
80. Carrara: The city in Tuscany, Italy. The marble used in building the leaning tower of Pisa came from its quarries.
81. Kuanon: Kuan? yin (J: Kuanon). The
Prob.
reference
to
73. V entadour: department of near Limousin.
Former Correze,
duchy S central
in the France,
? ? ? 368
90. Erigena:
[36:9], medieval philosopher and theolo?
gian. His book, De Divisione Naturae, was condemned in 1225 by Pope Honorius III [80:90].
91. Shun: One of the legendary emperors, reigned 2255? 2205 B. C. Pound sometimes calls him Chun [53:14, 23]. We read in Chung Yung: "Kung said: Shun was a son in the great pattern . . . he offered the sacrifices in the ancestral temple and his descendants offered them there to him [CON, 133]. For "precision" see 20 above.
92. Mt Taishan: [cf. 46 above]. The Four Books nowhere say Shun was at Taishan, but the visit is recorded in Shu Ching [I, ii, 8; Fang, IV, 110].
93. paraclete: In John 14.
26, Christ speaks of Paracletus as the intercessor or comforter. Capitalized, the Paraclete is the third person of the Trinity. Here it is "the divine spirit," which Pound believes is the same at all times and all places, East and West.
94. Yao: Legendary early ruler [53:14].
95. Yu: [53:15].
96. 4 giants . . . bones: DTC scene with a guard in a tower at each corner of the camp. Some of the "trainees" became fond of Pound and, althougb not allowed to speak to ! tim, performed helpful services.
97. Zion: Part of Jerusalem called the city of David. The name is symbolic of the promised land and of the messianic hopes of Israel.
98. David rex: L, "King David," king of the Hebrews, who died ca. 972 B. C.
99. Isaiah: Late Hebrew prophet who fiourished in 8th century B. C. The Lord told him He'd "had enough of burnt offer? ings and . . . the blood of bulls. " Instead, He said, "Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteous~ ness" [Isaiah 1:11,27].
74/429
quote. Pound translates the passage in part thus: "As silky light, King Wen's virtue / Coming down with the sunlight, / what purity! . . . Here the sense is: In this way was Wen perfect. The unmixed functions [in time and in space] without bourne. The unmixed is the tensile light, the Immaculata. There is no end to its action" [CON, 187].
101. "sunt lumina": [cf. 89 above].
102. Oirishman: Erigena [cf. 90 above].
103. King Carolus: Charles II, called "the Bald," 823? 877, Roman emperor and king of the West Franks, grandson of Charlemagne, inherited with his half? brothers the kingdom of Emperor Louis the Pious. After the death of Louis in 840, his sons and heirs began a protracted struggle to gain control of each other's parts of the kingdom. His later success in dealing with enemies was helped by the bishops and Pope John VIII [83:10].
104. dug him up: No record exists that Erigena was exhumed. Perhaps Pound means the 13th? century heretic Amalric (or Amaury) de Bene, whose pantheistic theo? ries derive from E. Amalric (d ca. 1204? 1207); he was dug up in 1209 [80:90] and burned, along with 10 of his still living followers, before the gates of Paris [EB].
105. soi disantly: F, "supposedly. " 106. Manichaeans: [23:28].
107. Les Albigeois: F, "The Albigensians. " Like the Manichaeans, they derived part of their thought from Mithras, the Persian god of light. They were destroyed by a crusade mounted against them by Innocent III [cf. 2 above].
108. problem of history: Since the Inquisi? tion "ruthlessly extirpated the sect and its books," the only historical evidence left is what the church would endorse [Fang, II, 232]. That evidence is grossly slanted. Pound related the spirit of the movement to gai savoir and called the Albigensian crusade "a sordid robbery cloaking itself in religious pretence" which "ended the gai savoir in southern France" [SR, 101].
74/429-430
109. Salamis: Island off Piraeus, in the gulf of which the Greeks defeated the Persians in 480 B,C.
110. money . . . state:
the battle of Salamis in ships built by money made from the state-owned silver mines at Laurion, which the state loaned to the shipwrights. A recurrent refrain in the Pisan and later cantos [cf. 155, 344 below and 77:63, 79:55]. Pound uses the incident to illustrate a major thesis of Social Credit, that the extension of credit should be the prerog? ative not of private banks but of the state, which should benefit from the interest: "The state can lend. The fleet that was victorious at Salamis was built with money advanced to the shipbuilders by the State of Athens" [SP, 314, 342].
111. Temp';s . . . Ioquendi: L, "A time to speak, a time to be silent" [31: 1] .
112. dixit: L, "said. "
113. Lenin:
Ulyanov, 1870? 1924, Soviet statesman and Marxist theoretician. Lenin is quoted again at 80/497 [80:81].
114. Pisa: Location ofDTC.
115. 23 year: Since the formation of the Mussolini government in 1922.
116. Till: Louis T. , American soldier, DTC,
369 121. 01' TI~: H, "No Man" [cf. 17 above].
123. the ewe: Remark probably made by Till. The incongruity of such sentiment from one hung for murder and rape is suggested.
124. Hagoromo: Classical, one? act, Noh play [CNTJ, 98? 104]. The "hagoromo" is a "feather-mantle" or magical cloak of a "Tennin," or nymph, who leaves it hanging on a bough where it is found by a priest. Pound calls the tennin "an aerial spirit or celestial dancer. " She wants her magic cloak back and the priest finally promises to return it, "if she will teach him her dance. " Pound goes on: "She accepts the offer. The chorus explains that the dance symbolizes the daily changes of the moon. . . . In the finale, the tennin is supposed to disappear like a mountain slowly hidden in mist" [ibid. , 98]. The Hagoromo, mentioned in Vr? Canto 1 [Poetry 10 (1917), 117], is evoked several times in the Pisan and later cantos [79/485,80/500].
125. Taishan: [cf. 46 above].
Johannes
Scotus Erigena
100. Light tensile . . . :
10] quotes Shi King and comments on the
\
120. Ideogram tive; not; no. "
Mo
[M4557],
"A
nega?
Lombardo,
Chung Yung
[XXVI,
Nikolai L.
Vladimir
Ilich
Pisa, who
Ironically,
Chicago, was murdered by two white citi- zens (Roy Bryant and John Milan) of Money, Miss. , where he was visiting at age 14.
117. Cholkis: Colchis, the kingdom of Aeetes, son of Helios, where Jason and the Argonauts sought the golden fieece.
118. Zeus ram: In the myth, the ram with the golden fleece was sacred to Zeus.
119. Snag . . . : Snatch of GI dialog over? heard at DTC. Snag may have been a nick? name for Till.
was executed Mr. Till's son
July 24, Emmet, from
. . . :
Venice].
130. Pietro 1435? 1515,
Romano: Pietro
Italian architect and sculptor
Themistocles won
1945.
[27:30].
man . . . down:
122. a
applied to Odyssean hero in time of trouble: to Odysseus in the power of Circe or the Cyclops and prob. by extension to Pound ! timself who, like Till, faced possible death at the DTC.
126. tovarish:
Here Pound prob. refers to himself as the one who, at the DTC, blessed all creation and "wept in the rain ditch. "
127. Sunt lumina: L, "are lights" [cf. 89 above].
128. stone . . . form: A favorite idea of Pound's which informed his perception of sculptors as discoverers or unveilers of form
[GB, passim].
129. sia . . . Miracoll:
R, "comrades"
I, "either [Aphrodite] or Isotta [Malatesta, 9:59], or Saint Mary of the Miracles" [church in
Metaphor
often
Cythera
? ? ? I;'
Misprint Redimiculum Matellarum (L, "A garland of chamberpots"), a collection of Bunting's
370
74/430-431
74/431-432
371
who did Dante's tomb at Ravenna as well as work listed in gloss above.
131. 01' TIl: . . . . down: [cf. 121 and 122 above].
132. diamond die: A metaphor to suggest that although civilization has been over? whelmed by the avalanche of the war. things of real and permanent value in man's aspira- tions will, like the diamond, prevail in the end, untarnished.
falsehood, for the third time through greed and for the fourth time through dissension. Should Wagadu ever be found for the fourth time, then she will live so forcefully in the minds of men that she will never be lost again. : . . Hooh! Dierra, Agada, Ganna, Silla!
55. Bianca Capello: 11542? 1587, mistress of Francesco de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany, who married her in 1579 and proclaimed her Grand Duchess of Tuscany four months later. She was said to have been poisoned by Francesco's brother, Ferdinand. The situa- tion of Clara Petacci may have reminded Pound of this response.
56. the key: The notebooks for Canto 74 at Yale reveal that the key lists Chinese books, the Analects of Mencius and Chung Yung, as well as a few Western authors (Cocteau, Wyndham Lewis, Frobenius), and books on specific subjects: economics, history, and monetary theory [for details see Pai, 12? 1] .
57. Lute of Gassir: The introductory song to the legend collection the Dausi. Gassire, son of Nganamba Fasa, was king of the Fasa tribe. The story of Gassire's envy and its consequences [cf. 134 below] is told in the legend collection, which deals with the history of Wagadu. A summary is given by Frobenius in Erlebte Erdteile [cf. GD, "Pound and Frobenius," LL, Motive, 33-59].
58. Hooo: Af. dial. "Hail! " [cf. 134 belowJ 59. Fasa: A tribe of heroes in N Africa.
60. lion-coloured pup: Prob. a dog running loose in the DTC.
74/427-428
61. les six potences . . . absoudre: F, "the six gallows / Absolve, may you absolve us all" [Villon, Epitaphe de Vii/on: Mais Priez Dieu que taus nous vueille absouldre] .
62. Barabbas: The bandit held in jail at the time of the arrest of Christ.
63. Hemingway: Ernest H. , 1898-1961, the American novelist Pound knew during his Paris years.
64. Antheil: George A. , 1900-1959, Ameri? can composer and pianist who was spon~ sored with several other modern musicians by Pound during the 20s. Pound wrote about him in Antheil and the Treatise on Harmony.
65. Thos. Wilson: A Negro "trainee" at the DTC [ef. 257 below].
66. Mr K. : DTC trainee.
67. Lane: DTC trainee.
68. Butterflies, mint: Paradisal cues [48:42, 50; 79/487; Frags. :38]. Even in hell or purgatory, the paradise-oriented man is conscious of his divine end. Pound takes the metaphor from Dante: "0 proud Chris- tians . . . do You not know that we are worms, born to form the angelic butterfly"
[Pur. X, 121-125J.
69. Lesbia's sparrows: Clodia, wife of the consul MeUelus Celer, was a notorious profligate celebrated by Catullus, who referred to her as Lesbia. Catullus 2, lines 1-4 may be translated: "Sparrow, thing of delight to her I love / Often she plays with you and holds you in her lap, / Offering her fingertip to your eager beak, / Asking for your darting nip".
74/428-429
own poetry based in part on Bernart de
Ventadorn's La terns vai even e vire ["Time goes and comes and turns"]. Also echo of Dante's era gia' lora che volge il disio ["It was now the hour that turns back the longing"] [Pur. VIII, IJ.
72. Ussel: Town in Correze Department, S central France, near Ventadour. Pound had fond memories of it and its 15th- and 16th-century houses. The Hotel des Ducs de Ventadour has on its facade an inscrip- tion honoring the last troubadours.
367
Chinese goddess of Mercy; the compassion? ate bodbisattva [90:29].
82. Linus: St. Linus, pope 167-76. His name appears first in all lists of the bishops of Rome. Earlier glosses [cf. 35, 45 above] and several of those following this one indicate that Pound was attending mass.
83. C1etus: St. Cletus (or Anacletus), pope ? 76? 88.
84. Clement: St. Clement I, pope 188-971. Also known as Clement of Rome. The names of the first three bishops of Rome appear after the names of some of the apostles as the beginning of a list of early church fathers in Canon I of the Mass.
85. the great scarab: Egyptian symbol of fertility and rebirth which was usually carved on basalt or green stone [Hastings, Ency. of Rei. & Ethics, vol. 11, 223-227]. Also conceived as one form of the sun god [Tay, Pai, 4? 1,53]. The design on the back of the priest's chasuble at mass suggested the idea of the scarab [M de RJ .
86. plowed . . . early: At the first conjunc- tion of the sun and moon in spring, the emperor, the Son of Heaven, had to plough the field of God with his own hands, and at late spring, "The empress offers cocoons to the Son of Heaven" [52/258].
87. virtu: I, "creative power" [36:2].
88. Ideogram: Hsien [M2692]: "display, be illustrious. " Pound uses as "tensile light descending" and relates it to the Ming ideogram [M4534]: "The sun and moon, the total light process . . . hence, the intelli- gence. . . . Refer to Scotus Erigena, Gros- seteste and the notes on light in my Cavalcanti" [CON, 20; Michaels, Pai, 1? 1, 37? 54; CFT, Pai, 2? 3, 458].
89_ "sunt lumina": L, "are lights. " From "'Omnia, quae sunt, lumina sunt" [trans. on line 22, p. 429 of the text as "all things that are are lights"] . Passage derives from Erigena as quoted by Gilson [La Philosophie du Moyen Age, 2d ed. , 1944, p. 214; cf. LE, 160].
70. voiceless . . . roosts:
the Wagadu legend; Pound relates the four gates of the legend to the four corner guard towers at the DTC [cf. 57 above; 96 below]. The "voiceless" may be the drum message about the tempest in Baluba [38:41].
71. el triste . . . rivolge: I, "the sad thought turns / toward Ussel. To Ventadour / goes the thought, the time turns back. " Pound's
74. Limoges: Manufacturing and commer- cial city of Haute-Vienne Department, W central France, not far from Ventadour. Perhaps the polite salesman is the same one celebrated by T. S. Eliot in "Gerontion" as Mr. Silvero. Pound said that all the trouba? dours who knew letters or music had been taught "at the abbeys of Limoges" [SR, 91].
75. which city: Fang identifies the forgot? ten city as Les Eyzies, a small town near which "are numerous sites of pre-historic Europeans" [II, 223J.
76. Urochs: Aurochs, the European bison [cf. 152 belowJ.
77. Mme Pujol: A landlady in Provence. Excideuil, between Limoges and Perigueux, was the place where Mme. Pujol or Poujol kept an inn. Pound told HK that Madame would be dead but the inn would still be there.
78. white bread: Observation on the adul? teration of food by additives. Cf. "is thy bread ever more of stale rags / " [45/229] .
79. Mt Taishan: [cf. 46 above].
80. Carrara: The city in Tuscany, Italy. The marble used in building the leaning tower of Pisa came from its quarries.
81. Kuanon: Kuan? yin (J: Kuanon). The
Prob.
reference
to
73. V entadour: department of near Limousin.
Former Correze,
duchy S central
in the France,
? ? ? 368
90. Erigena:
[36:9], medieval philosopher and theolo?
gian. His book, De Divisione Naturae, was condemned in 1225 by Pope Honorius III [80:90].
91. Shun: One of the legendary emperors, reigned 2255? 2205 B. C. Pound sometimes calls him Chun [53:14, 23]. We read in Chung Yung: "Kung said: Shun was a son in the great pattern . . . he offered the sacrifices in the ancestral temple and his descendants offered them there to him [CON, 133]. For "precision" see 20 above.
92. Mt Taishan: [cf. 46 above]. The Four Books nowhere say Shun was at Taishan, but the visit is recorded in Shu Ching [I, ii, 8; Fang, IV, 110].
93. paraclete: In John 14.
26, Christ speaks of Paracletus as the intercessor or comforter. Capitalized, the Paraclete is the third person of the Trinity. Here it is "the divine spirit," which Pound believes is the same at all times and all places, East and West.
94. Yao: Legendary early ruler [53:14].
95. Yu: [53:15].
96. 4 giants . . . bones: DTC scene with a guard in a tower at each corner of the camp. Some of the "trainees" became fond of Pound and, althougb not allowed to speak to ! tim, performed helpful services.
97. Zion: Part of Jerusalem called the city of David. The name is symbolic of the promised land and of the messianic hopes of Israel.
98. David rex: L, "King David," king of the Hebrews, who died ca. 972 B. C.
99. Isaiah: Late Hebrew prophet who fiourished in 8th century B. C. The Lord told him He'd "had enough of burnt offer? ings and . . . the blood of bulls. " Instead, He said, "Zion shall be redeemed by justice, and those in her who repent, by righteous~ ness" [Isaiah 1:11,27].
74/429
quote. Pound translates the passage in part thus: "As silky light, King Wen's virtue / Coming down with the sunlight, / what purity! . . . Here the sense is: In this way was Wen perfect. The unmixed functions [in time and in space] without bourne. The unmixed is the tensile light, the Immaculata. There is no end to its action" [CON, 187].
101. "sunt lumina": [cf. 89 above].
102. Oirishman: Erigena [cf. 90 above].
103. King Carolus: Charles II, called "the Bald," 823? 877, Roman emperor and king of the West Franks, grandson of Charlemagne, inherited with his half? brothers the kingdom of Emperor Louis the Pious. After the death of Louis in 840, his sons and heirs began a protracted struggle to gain control of each other's parts of the kingdom. His later success in dealing with enemies was helped by the bishops and Pope John VIII [83:10].
104. dug him up: No record exists that Erigena was exhumed. Perhaps Pound means the 13th? century heretic Amalric (or Amaury) de Bene, whose pantheistic theo? ries derive from E. Amalric (d ca. 1204? 1207); he was dug up in 1209 [80:90] and burned, along with 10 of his still living followers, before the gates of Paris [EB].
105. soi disantly: F, "supposedly. " 106. Manichaeans: [23:28].
107. Les Albigeois: F, "The Albigensians. " Like the Manichaeans, they derived part of their thought from Mithras, the Persian god of light. They were destroyed by a crusade mounted against them by Innocent III [cf. 2 above].
108. problem of history: Since the Inquisi? tion "ruthlessly extirpated the sect and its books," the only historical evidence left is what the church would endorse [Fang, II, 232]. That evidence is grossly slanted. Pound related the spirit of the movement to gai savoir and called the Albigensian crusade "a sordid robbery cloaking itself in religious pretence" which "ended the gai savoir in southern France" [SR, 101].
74/429-430
109. Salamis: Island off Piraeus, in the gulf of which the Greeks defeated the Persians in 480 B,C.
110. money . . . state:
the battle of Salamis in ships built by money made from the state-owned silver mines at Laurion, which the state loaned to the shipwrights. A recurrent refrain in the Pisan and later cantos [cf. 155, 344 below and 77:63, 79:55]. Pound uses the incident to illustrate a major thesis of Social Credit, that the extension of credit should be the prerog? ative not of private banks but of the state, which should benefit from the interest: "The state can lend. The fleet that was victorious at Salamis was built with money advanced to the shipbuilders by the State of Athens" [SP, 314, 342].
111. Temp';s . . . Ioquendi: L, "A time to speak, a time to be silent" [31: 1] .
112. dixit: L, "said. "
113. Lenin:
Ulyanov, 1870? 1924, Soviet statesman and Marxist theoretician. Lenin is quoted again at 80/497 [80:81].
114. Pisa: Location ofDTC.
115. 23 year: Since the formation of the Mussolini government in 1922.
116. Till: Louis T. , American soldier, DTC,
369 121. 01' TI~: H, "No Man" [cf. 17 above].
123. the ewe: Remark probably made by Till. The incongruity of such sentiment from one hung for murder and rape is suggested.
124. Hagoromo: Classical, one? act, Noh play [CNTJ, 98? 104]. The "hagoromo" is a "feather-mantle" or magical cloak of a "Tennin," or nymph, who leaves it hanging on a bough where it is found by a priest. Pound calls the tennin "an aerial spirit or celestial dancer. " She wants her magic cloak back and the priest finally promises to return it, "if she will teach him her dance. " Pound goes on: "She accepts the offer. The chorus explains that the dance symbolizes the daily changes of the moon. . . . In the finale, the tennin is supposed to disappear like a mountain slowly hidden in mist" [ibid. , 98]. The Hagoromo, mentioned in Vr? Canto 1 [Poetry 10 (1917), 117], is evoked several times in the Pisan and later cantos [79/485,80/500].
125. Taishan: [cf. 46 above].
Johannes
Scotus Erigena
100. Light tensile . . . :
10] quotes Shi King and comments on the
\
120. Ideogram tive; not; no. "
Mo
[M4557],
"A
nega?
Lombardo,
Chung Yung
[XXVI,
Nikolai L.
Vladimir
Ilich
Pisa, who
Ironically,
Chicago, was murdered by two white citi- zens (Roy Bryant and John Milan) of Money, Miss. , where he was visiting at age 14.
117. Cholkis: Colchis, the kingdom of Aeetes, son of Helios, where Jason and the Argonauts sought the golden fieece.
118. Zeus ram: In the myth, the ram with the golden fleece was sacred to Zeus.
119. Snag . . . : Snatch of GI dialog over? heard at DTC. Snag may have been a nick? name for Till.
was executed Mr. Till's son
July 24, Emmet, from
. . . :
Venice].
130. Pietro 1435? 1515,
Romano: Pietro
Italian architect and sculptor
Themistocles won
1945.
[27:30].
man . . . down:
122. a
applied to Odyssean hero in time of trouble: to Odysseus in the power of Circe or the Cyclops and prob. by extension to Pound ! timself who, like Till, faced possible death at the DTC.
126. tovarish:
Here Pound prob. refers to himself as the one who, at the DTC, blessed all creation and "wept in the rain ditch. "
127. Sunt lumina: L, "are lights" [cf. 89 above].
128. stone . . . form: A favorite idea of Pound's which informed his perception of sculptors as discoverers or unveilers of form
[GB, passim].
129. sia . . . Miracoll:
R, "comrades"
I, "either [Aphrodite] or Isotta [Malatesta, 9:59], or Saint Mary of the Miracles" [church in
Metaphor
often
Cythera
? ? ? I;'
Misprint Redimiculum Matellarum (L, "A garland of chamberpots"), a collection of Bunting's
370
74/430-431
74/431-432
371
who did Dante's tomb at Ravenna as well as work listed in gloss above.
131. 01' TIl: . . . . down: [cf. 121 and 122 above].
132. diamond die: A metaphor to suggest that although civilization has been over? whelmed by the avalanche of the war. things of real and permanent value in man's aspira- tions will, like the diamond, prevail in the end, untarnished.
falsehood, for the third time through greed and for the fourth time through dissension. Should Wagadu ever be found for the fourth time, then she will live so forcefully in the minds of men that she will never be lost again. : . . Hooh! Dierra, Agada, Ganna, Silla!
