For Wagadu,
whenever
men have seen her, has always had four gates: one to the north, one to the west, one to the east and one to the south.
A-Companion-to-the-Cantos-of-Ezra-Pound-II
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! Hooh! Fasa! " The rest ? of the legend (12 pages) gives a number of stories of how Wagadu was lost, each section ending with the refrain "Hooh! . . . " repeated 10 times. The legend illustrates a Confucian doctrine central to Pound's thinking: If a king (or chief) lacks order in himself that leads to lack of order in the family, which leads to
lack of order in the state, which thus be- comes lost [cf. "Cheng Ming: A New Paideuma," inside front cover of Pai; 57 above].
135. dell' Halia tradita: I, "of betrayed Italy. " Pound is stating that Italy was betrayed by the king and Pietro Bodoglio, who replaced M as head of the government. This act derived from a lack of order as expressed by the Confucian Cheng Ming ("right name") or lack of "a new pai? deuma," which Pound associates with Frobenius [SP, 284; GK, 58-59].
136. a terrace . . . : [cf. 8 above].
137. la luna: I, "the moon. "
138. Demeter: Greek goddess of fertility.
139. contrappunto: I, "counterpoint. "
140. ch'intenerisce: I, "that softens. " Dante [Pur. VIII, 2] describes thus the twilight hour softening the hearts of the homeward
bound.
141. a sinistra la Torre: I, "to the left of the Tower. "
142. Che . . . cader: P, The 3d line of Bernart de Ventadour's "Lark" poem: "che s'oblia es laissa chazer," "who forgets and lets himself fall" [T, 427].
143. NEKUIA: Book XI of the Odyssey [1: Sources]. Odysseus, before and after the Nekuia, saw the spirits of Tyro and Alcmene in Hades rOd. II, 120; XI, 235, 266].
144. A1cmene: Amphitryon's wife. She was visited by Zeus, in the form of her husband, and bore his son, Heracles.
145. Tyro: [2: 12].
146. Charybdis: The whirlpool opposite Scylla, off the coast of Sicily, by which Odysseus had to pass rOd. XII, 104? 106].
155. Salamis [cf. 109 above].
156. Joe Gould: Joseph
1889? 1957, Greenwich Village bohemian. Cummings painted his portrait and referred to him twice in his work [Eimi, 315; CP, 1938, no. 261]. Gould, Harvard 1911, started as a police reporter but after 1917 supposedly spent his life writing An Oral
History o f Our Times, scribbled in hundreds of nickle notebooks (left in cellars and closets), a few bits of which were printed by Pound [Exile 2, 1927, 112-116] and Richard John [Pagany II, 2, Spring 1931]. After his death it transpired that very little of the history was actually written [HK]. Since both Bunting and Cummings were imprisoned because of WWI, Pound may have thought Gould was also; but the record does not reveal this.
157. cummings: edward estlin c. , 1894- 1962; American poet, author of Eimi and The Enormous Room, an account of his imprisonment by the French army at the end of WWI, during the early years of which
he served as a volunteer ambulance driver.
158. black . . . translucent: The black panther in the Roman zoo [HK].
159. Est . . . Ite: L, "It is finished, Go. " Formula used at end of Catholic Mass, derived from Christ's final words on the cross.
160. Tangier . . . flame: The seaport of NW Morocco; Pound visited it with his Aunt Frank and doubtless saw the fakir recalled here.
161. Rais Vii: Ahmed ibn? Muhammed Raisuli, 1875? 1925, Moroccan brigand who kidnapped Ion Perdicaris and his nephew, Cromwell Varley, around 1910 and collected $30,000 ransom from the U. S. But the sultan of Morocco paid back the $80,000 to avoid war with the U. S. and England [Fang, I! , 48-49]. Pound wrote an imaginary interview called "The Rais Uli Myth . . . being Tangier in Dry Point" and sent it to his father with an idea that McClure swould pubiish it.
. . . :
man must first despise himself, and then
others will despise him. A family must first destroy itself, and then others will destroy it. A kingdom must first smite itself and then others will smite it" [Legge, 704]. This Confucian idea is illustrated by the story of Wagadu in "Gassire's Lute. "
134. 4 times . . . Fasa: "Gassire's Lute," the Soninke legend, starts with these words: "Four times Wagadu stood there in all her splendor. Four times Wagadu disap? peared and was lost to human sight: once through vanity, once through falsehood, once through greed and once through dissension. Four times Wagadu changed her name. First she was called Dierra, then Agada, then Ganna, then Silla. Four times she turned her face. Once to the north, once to the west, once to the east and once to the
south.
For Wagadu, whenever men have seen her, has always had four gates: one to the north, one to the west, one to the east and one to the south. Those are the directions whence the strength of Wagadu comes, the strength in which she endures no matter whether she be built of stone, wood and earth or lives but as a shadow in the mind and longing of her children. For really, Wagadu is not of stone, not of wood, not of earth. Wagadu is the strength which lives in the hearts of men and is sometimes visible because eyes see her and ears hear the clash of swords and ring of shields, and is some? times invisible because the indomitability of men has overtired her, so that she sleeps.
Sleep came to Wagadu for the first time through vanity, for the second time through
133. first must destroy
Mencius:
" A
\
poetry published in 1930.
!
,
149. Vai soli: A misspelling of L, vae soli, "woe to (one who is) alone"; the biblical sentence "V ae soli, quia cum ceciderit, non habet sublevantem se" ("Woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him up"). Pound got the phrase from Laforgue who got it from the Bible [Eccle- siastes 4. 10]. Pound used it for a translation he called "Pierrots" [T, 247].
150. 'HAlON . . . : H, "the sun around the sun. "
151. Lucina: Minor Roman diety, an aspect of Juno, the goddess of childbirth. Also Diana Lucina, lunar aspect of tidal and menstrual periodicity.
152. urochs: "Aurochs," European bison.
153. Bunting: Basil B. , 1900? , English poet who followed in the Whitman-Pound tradition. He visited Pound and lived for several years (at different times) at Rapallo. Pound dedicated GK to Bunting and Zukof? sky. In 1918, after WWI was over, Bunting refused induction into the British army as a conscientious objector on the principle that if there were a war he wouldn't go, so if there weren't he couldn't enlist. After 6 months in jail he went on a hunger strike. The guards put a roast chicken in his cell every day, but Bunting held out and after 11 days they let him go [B. B. : Man and
Poet, 29].
154. "Red . . . Met . . . ":
147. femina . . . : L, "woman. "
148. hamadryas: nymph. "
L, hamadryad,
"tree
for
Ferdinand G. ,
? ? ? 372
74/432-433
74/433-434
373
162. Elson: A missionary Pound visited in Gibraltar in 1906 and 1908. Pound wrote to Horner Pound: "Elson is about the most livest thing in Tangiers. Had a bully good gallop over hills to his home-next to the Perdicari's place which we inspected"
[unpub. letter in Yale collection].
163. villa of Perdicaris: Perdicaris's house was situated on a hill on the road running from Tangiers to Cape Sparte! . After he was kidnapped, the villa "never saw its master again; the fine view out to sea, the delightful gardens, the comfortable house, remained deserted" [Fang, II, 49] .
164. color diluce: I, "color of light. "
165. Fordie: Ford Madox [Hueffer] Ford, 1873? 1939, the English novelist, critic, poet, and editor. "Riesenberg," a brief prose piece he wrote, concerns two giants who lie helplessly bound in a valley of the Upper Silesian mountains.
166. William: W. Butler Yeats. His whole work, early and late, is so filled with dreams that assigning a specific source can only be idle speculation.
167. Jim the comedian: James Joyce,
171. Newbolt: Sir Henry 1938, the English poet.
John N. ,
1862?
179. Voisin's: A restaurant in Paris at 261, rue St. Honore and 16, rue Cambon. Re- corded in Baedeker as a restaurant of "the highest class" [Fang, II, 309].
180. Uncle George: George Holden Tink? ham, 1870? 1956, member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1915? 43); a conservative and isolationist whom Pound knew in Venice.
,
181. PEl IIANTA: H, "all things flow. " Inversion of Heraclitus nCt. vrCi. peL Seems to imply that while everyone else flowed on the path of least resistance, Uncle George stood firm as a rock.
182: fllls up . . . : When asked what Kung found in water to praise, Mencius said: "There is a spring of water; how it gushes out! . . . It fills up every hole, and then advances, flowing up to the four seas"
[83/530; CON 217].
183. Nevsky: The Nevsky Prospekt is the major avenue of st. Petersburg, similar to the Champs? Elysees in Paris.
184. SchOners: The SchOner Restaurant at 19 Siebensterngasse, Vienna. Prob. the place where Pound encountered Antheil and his wife in 1928 [cf. Antheil,BadBoy o fMusic,
215; Fang, II, 313].
185. der Greif at Bolsano: A hotel with a restaurant at 9 Walterplatz, Bolzano, in the Tyrol, Italy.
186. Mouquin's: A famous French restau- rant in New York, ca. 1900, which was closed in 1925. Pound, in Letters and other writings, associates it with W. C. Williams. See "Dr. William's Position" [Dial, 1928, reprinted, PE, 70] : "All of which belongs to an American yesterday and is as gone as les caves de Mouquin" [Fang, II, 321].
187. Robert's: A restaurant at 33 West 55th St. In 1939 Pound visited it with E. E. Cummings.
188. La Marquise de Pierre: A friend of Remy de Gourmont who became a friend of Pound [RO].
189. Huddy: William Henry Hudson, 1841? 1922. Born in Argentina of American parents, he came to England in 1870. Ford wrote of Hudson: "An immensely long form would be leaning in the doorway that separated the upper rooms of the Mont Blanc. . . . After a pause of almost breath? lessness we would all ofus exclaim 'Hud . . . son' . . . all except' Mr. Edward Garnett, who, as his discoverer, permitted himself to say 'Huddie! '" [Mightier than the Sword, 60]. Hudson was a naturalist and novelist.
Pound acclaimed his Green Mansions.
190. ou sont les heurs: OF, "where are the good times" [variation of Villon: "Oli sont les neiges d'antan. "].
191. Mr. James: Henry 1. , 1843? 1916, the American novelist.
192. Mrs. Hawkesby: Henry James's house? keeper at Rye.
193. Mr. Adams: Henry Brooks A. , 1838? 1918, son of Charles Francis Adams; Ameri? can historian, taught medieval history at
Harvard (1870? 77); author of The Education ofHenry Adams, which contains the seed of this anecdote [Chap. XIX, "Chaos"]. Pound got the story from Santayana [L, 338] .
194. the monument: Santayana [RO] .
195. Haec sunt fastae: L, haec sun! fasti (? ): "these are the festivals (? ). "
196. quatorze Juillet: F, "14 July" (Bastille Day, 1945).
197. Amber Rives: Amelie Rives, 1864? 1945, Time, June 25, 1945, obit. : "Died . . . Amelie Rives . . . 81, who . . . scandalized readers. . . with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead. . . . " Pound played tennis with her in London at the South Lodge horne of Ford Madox Ford [Fang, 11, 99? 100; MSB note reads: 2nd rate British novelist].
Cunninghame G. , 1852? 1936, Scottish essayist, biographer, and? world traveler, noted for his journey by horse through South America. Honored in
1882?
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! Hooh! Fasa! " The rest ? of the legend (12 pages) gives a number of stories of how Wagadu was lost, each section ending with the refrain "Hooh! . . . " repeated 10 times. The legend illustrates a Confucian doctrine central to Pound's thinking: If a king (or chief) lacks order in himself that leads to lack of order in the family, which leads to
lack of order in the state, which thus be- comes lost [cf. "Cheng Ming: A New Paideuma," inside front cover of Pai; 57 above].
135. dell' Halia tradita: I, "of betrayed Italy. " Pound is stating that Italy was betrayed by the king and Pietro Bodoglio, who replaced M as head of the government. This act derived from a lack of order as expressed by the Confucian Cheng Ming ("right name") or lack of "a new pai? deuma," which Pound associates with Frobenius [SP, 284; GK, 58-59].
136. a terrace . . . : [cf. 8 above].
137. la luna: I, "the moon. "
138. Demeter: Greek goddess of fertility.
139. contrappunto: I, "counterpoint. "
140. ch'intenerisce: I, "that softens. " Dante [Pur. VIII, 2] describes thus the twilight hour softening the hearts of the homeward
bound.
141. a sinistra la Torre: I, "to the left of the Tower. "
142. Che . . . cader: P, The 3d line of Bernart de Ventadour's "Lark" poem: "che s'oblia es laissa chazer," "who forgets and lets himself fall" [T, 427].
143. NEKUIA: Book XI of the Odyssey [1: Sources]. Odysseus, before and after the Nekuia, saw the spirits of Tyro and Alcmene in Hades rOd. II, 120; XI, 235, 266].
144. A1cmene: Amphitryon's wife. She was visited by Zeus, in the form of her husband, and bore his son, Heracles.
145. Tyro: [2: 12].
146. Charybdis: The whirlpool opposite Scylla, off the coast of Sicily, by which Odysseus had to pass rOd. XII, 104? 106].
155. Salamis [cf. 109 above].
156. Joe Gould: Joseph
1889? 1957, Greenwich Village bohemian. Cummings painted his portrait and referred to him twice in his work [Eimi, 315; CP, 1938, no. 261]. Gould, Harvard 1911, started as a police reporter but after 1917 supposedly spent his life writing An Oral
History o f Our Times, scribbled in hundreds of nickle notebooks (left in cellars and closets), a few bits of which were printed by Pound [Exile 2, 1927, 112-116] and Richard John [Pagany II, 2, Spring 1931]. After his death it transpired that very little of the history was actually written [HK]. Since both Bunting and Cummings were imprisoned because of WWI, Pound may have thought Gould was also; but the record does not reveal this.
157. cummings: edward estlin c. , 1894- 1962; American poet, author of Eimi and The Enormous Room, an account of his imprisonment by the French army at the end of WWI, during the early years of which
he served as a volunteer ambulance driver.
158. black . . . translucent: The black panther in the Roman zoo [HK].
159. Est . . . Ite: L, "It is finished, Go. " Formula used at end of Catholic Mass, derived from Christ's final words on the cross.
160. Tangier . . . flame: The seaport of NW Morocco; Pound visited it with his Aunt Frank and doubtless saw the fakir recalled here.
161. Rais Vii: Ahmed ibn? Muhammed Raisuli, 1875? 1925, Moroccan brigand who kidnapped Ion Perdicaris and his nephew, Cromwell Varley, around 1910 and collected $30,000 ransom from the U. S. But the sultan of Morocco paid back the $80,000 to avoid war with the U. S. and England [Fang, I! , 48-49]. Pound wrote an imaginary interview called "The Rais Uli Myth . . . being Tangier in Dry Point" and sent it to his father with an idea that McClure swould pubiish it.
. . . :
man must first despise himself, and then
others will despise him. A family must first destroy itself, and then others will destroy it. A kingdom must first smite itself and then others will smite it" [Legge, 704]. This Confucian idea is illustrated by the story of Wagadu in "Gassire's Lute. "
134. 4 times . . . Fasa: "Gassire's Lute," the Soninke legend, starts with these words: "Four times Wagadu stood there in all her splendor. Four times Wagadu disap? peared and was lost to human sight: once through vanity, once through falsehood, once through greed and once through dissension. Four times Wagadu changed her name. First she was called Dierra, then Agada, then Ganna, then Silla. Four times she turned her face. Once to the north, once to the west, once to the east and once to the
south.
For Wagadu, whenever men have seen her, has always had four gates: one to the north, one to the west, one to the east and one to the south. Those are the directions whence the strength of Wagadu comes, the strength in which she endures no matter whether she be built of stone, wood and earth or lives but as a shadow in the mind and longing of her children. For really, Wagadu is not of stone, not of wood, not of earth. Wagadu is the strength which lives in the hearts of men and is sometimes visible because eyes see her and ears hear the clash of swords and ring of shields, and is some? times invisible because the indomitability of men has overtired her, so that she sleeps.
Sleep came to Wagadu for the first time through vanity, for the second time through
133. first must destroy
Mencius:
" A
\
poetry published in 1930.
!
,
149. Vai soli: A misspelling of L, vae soli, "woe to (one who is) alone"; the biblical sentence "V ae soli, quia cum ceciderit, non habet sublevantem se" ("Woe to him who is alone when he falls for he has no one to help him up"). Pound got the phrase from Laforgue who got it from the Bible [Eccle- siastes 4. 10]. Pound used it for a translation he called "Pierrots" [T, 247].
150. 'HAlON . . . : H, "the sun around the sun. "
151. Lucina: Minor Roman diety, an aspect of Juno, the goddess of childbirth. Also Diana Lucina, lunar aspect of tidal and menstrual periodicity.
152. urochs: "Aurochs," European bison.
153. Bunting: Basil B. , 1900? , English poet who followed in the Whitman-Pound tradition. He visited Pound and lived for several years (at different times) at Rapallo. Pound dedicated GK to Bunting and Zukof? sky. In 1918, after WWI was over, Bunting refused induction into the British army as a conscientious objector on the principle that if there were a war he wouldn't go, so if there weren't he couldn't enlist. After 6 months in jail he went on a hunger strike. The guards put a roast chicken in his cell every day, but Bunting held out and after 11 days they let him go [B. B. : Man and
Poet, 29].
154. "Red . . . Met . . . ":
147. femina . . . : L, "woman. "
148. hamadryas: nymph. "
L, hamadryad,
"tree
for
Ferdinand G. ,
? ? ? 372
74/432-433
74/433-434
373
162. Elson: A missionary Pound visited in Gibraltar in 1906 and 1908. Pound wrote to Horner Pound: "Elson is about the most livest thing in Tangiers. Had a bully good gallop over hills to his home-next to the Perdicari's place which we inspected"
[unpub. letter in Yale collection].
163. villa of Perdicaris: Perdicaris's house was situated on a hill on the road running from Tangiers to Cape Sparte! . After he was kidnapped, the villa "never saw its master again; the fine view out to sea, the delightful gardens, the comfortable house, remained deserted" [Fang, II, 49] .
164. color diluce: I, "color of light. "
165. Fordie: Ford Madox [Hueffer] Ford, 1873? 1939, the English novelist, critic, poet, and editor. "Riesenberg," a brief prose piece he wrote, concerns two giants who lie helplessly bound in a valley of the Upper Silesian mountains.
166. William: W. Butler Yeats. His whole work, early and late, is so filled with dreams that assigning a specific source can only be idle speculation.
167. Jim the comedian: James Joyce,
171. Newbolt: Sir Henry 1938, the English poet.
John N. ,
1862?
179. Voisin's: A restaurant in Paris at 261, rue St. Honore and 16, rue Cambon. Re- corded in Baedeker as a restaurant of "the highest class" [Fang, II, 309].
180. Uncle George: George Holden Tink? ham, 1870? 1956, member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1915? 43); a conservative and isolationist whom Pound knew in Venice.
,
181. PEl IIANTA: H, "all things flow. " Inversion of Heraclitus nCt. vrCi. peL Seems to imply that while everyone else flowed on the path of least resistance, Uncle George stood firm as a rock.
182: fllls up . . . : When asked what Kung found in water to praise, Mencius said: "There is a spring of water; how it gushes out! . . . It fills up every hole, and then advances, flowing up to the four seas"
[83/530; CON 217].
183. Nevsky: The Nevsky Prospekt is the major avenue of st. Petersburg, similar to the Champs? Elysees in Paris.
184. SchOners: The SchOner Restaurant at 19 Siebensterngasse, Vienna. Prob. the place where Pound encountered Antheil and his wife in 1928 [cf. Antheil,BadBoy o fMusic,
215; Fang, II, 313].
185. der Greif at Bolsano: A hotel with a restaurant at 9 Walterplatz, Bolzano, in the Tyrol, Italy.
186. Mouquin's: A famous French restau- rant in New York, ca. 1900, which was closed in 1925. Pound, in Letters and other writings, associates it with W. C. Williams. See "Dr. William's Position" [Dial, 1928, reprinted, PE, 70] : "All of which belongs to an American yesterday and is as gone as les caves de Mouquin" [Fang, II, 321].
187. Robert's: A restaurant at 33 West 55th St. In 1939 Pound visited it with E. E. Cummings.
188. La Marquise de Pierre: A friend of Remy de Gourmont who became a friend of Pound [RO].
189. Huddy: William Henry Hudson, 1841? 1922. Born in Argentina of American parents, he came to England in 1870. Ford wrote of Hudson: "An immensely long form would be leaning in the doorway that separated the upper rooms of the Mont Blanc. . . . After a pause of almost breath? lessness we would all ofus exclaim 'Hud . . . son' . . . all except' Mr. Edward Garnett, who, as his discoverer, permitted himself to say 'Huddie! '" [Mightier than the Sword, 60]. Hudson was a naturalist and novelist.
Pound acclaimed his Green Mansions.
190. ou sont les heurs: OF, "where are the good times" [variation of Villon: "Oli sont les neiges d'antan. "].
191. Mr. James: Henry 1. , 1843? 1916, the American novelist.
192. Mrs. Hawkesby: Henry James's house? keeper at Rye.
193. Mr. Adams: Henry Brooks A. , 1838? 1918, son of Charles Francis Adams; Ameri? can historian, taught medieval history at
Harvard (1870? 77); author of The Education ofHenry Adams, which contains the seed of this anecdote [Chap. XIX, "Chaos"]. Pound got the story from Santayana [L, 338] .
194. the monument: Santayana [RO] .
195. Haec sunt fastae: L, haec sun! fasti (? ): "these are the festivals (? ). "
196. quatorze Juillet: F, "14 July" (Bastille Day, 1945).
197. Amber Rives: Amelie Rives, 1864? 1945, Time, June 25, 1945, obit. : "Died . . . Amelie Rives . . . 81, who . . . scandalized readers. . . with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead. . . . " Pound played tennis with her in London at the South Lodge horne of Ford Madox Ford [Fang, 11, 99? 100; MSB note reads: 2nd rate British novelist].
Cunninghame G. , 1852? 1936, Scottish essayist, biographer, and? world traveler, noted for his journey by horse through South America. Honored in
1882?
