Casa dei tre occhi

Guidecca 43

Venice.

Dear Ezra

I'm repeatedly thinking of you in my blasted
country and hoping that it goes well. You may find anything, I feel.

As usual seeing you again did an immense amount for me and though resolved
to keep a show of independence, I now know myself at its best to be your
disciple, that is to say that but for you and your cantos I couldn't be writ-
ing as I now do and I couldn't have got so near to the Tempio and Sigismondo.

The influence of the cantos has been quite unconscious since, re-reading Pis-
anello, I now realize for the first time how I have echoed the cantos in place
It must have gone very deep because I would never do it consciously. It's not
so much the material and the ideas as the tone which has remained with me.

As for the analogy in the using simultaneously of two planes of expression, I
was shy about that when you mentioned it just because it had never occured to me,
was taken for granted x as being the only way by which the concert pitch could
be maintained, one, though, that reveals my great weakness of technique so that
knowing the mode to be inevitable for me I have never dared really to cons-
ider or to judge it. And the truth is that I xxx only hope to get a cumul-
-ative effect. If you think its too undisciplined, altogether too little