• BilSababOPM
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      11 days ago

      Eh, that’s technically necrophilia, but I’m not judgmental about that.

      Ezra Pound is a prime example of what Adorno called Negative Dialectics. On the one hand, he’s a great innovator of english language literature who cemented his place in history by late 1910s. Lustra, Umbra, Personae, Ripostes, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley - that’s some top tier poetry.

      On the other hand, he was a conspiratorial nutjob susceptible to populist and hateful ideologies. A prime example of what happens when you dig yourself into an echo chamber and reel in its comforts to the point of no return. He paid for that dearly so it’s always be “Ezra screwed Ezra”.