[1934]

29 Nov; or 30

anno XIII

My Dear perpetual playboy and dilletante/

NUTS, y if you
ever wrote me a letter I didn't answer, you mailed it
without address or postage stamp.

Will try to answer part of yr/ airy in elevane
by radio on the 10 th Dec. unless something unforeseen etc/

NOTE that I live in Italy NOT in yr/ moth eaten island.

Gertie izza youpine interested in her own umbelious,
Any man who doesn't buckle down to inspecting the monetary
system is a play boy/

In yr/ filthy and god shatupon country, every man in high office
is a thieves accomplies, and mostly too basated iHAN ignorant
to know it.

The HE MEN heap big shieks ( if other arc ) set
round making toy boats, in order to express the purity of
their sould when confronted with the stuffed sofa of politics
whereunder is the dung heap of Monty Norman, Caiphas, Deterding
and co/

Hemingway ( part English ) goes shooting pussy cats /

Roosevelt, a hen with its head cut off,

Transition always was the same king of silly antimacassar
that you played around with when you got thru being
King of Arabia, second rate art snobs. I never have been
in that kitchen.

Hell, yes, I feel solid, all right.

and go to hell, with yr/ British
amateur twaddle about eddkashn, you known nor Greek than I
do/ you went to THE university, etc.

IF your pubrs/ had sent
me yr/ translation I shd/ have been decelighted/ instead
B/R. sent me a carmingly printed bunch of the great man's letters.

I am present in British print / because america GGGGG
still contains such human sediment, such crass bird shit
that the only way to civilize the damn place is VIA London.

I any live idea has to be piped THRU
the crusted old centre of decomposing empire/ in order to
get past the lice ( bank pimp's lice ) who run American book
distribution/

Someday you will do a man's work and SHIT heavily on
Random House. There again a gang of bastards who a just gal
wd/ eradicate.

There is every reason to live outside america as long as
the american vie intellectuelle sits patiently under the great

british bum, carefull collecting and cataloguing the droppings.

If you want to be of use/ get to it and help the poor blokes who
are trying to carry ON Orage's paper.

Sure he is loss/ why didn't yr/ god daun ham fed public
find out that he WOULD BE a loss.

Write in to the office and SAY so ' yr/ moral ( saving the
word) suppost wd/ be valuable.

Of course I dont think you prots/ have any morals, all you
have is the snobism of righteousness / the non copulating C.H.
Doughty got gt/ kick out of feeling superior the th AAArabs/

Also, I never did select the antimacassars of the N/E/W/ or old N.
Age.

I dont read Mr Sore/abjoe, etc.

Do you read any serious books ?

Tone of this letter due to haste, and having other jobs to do before
lunch.

Spose YOU answer a few questions ( enclosed ) so as to show
me whether yr/ edkashun covers anything but the second norist
and a few aesthetic art tricks .

cordially, I mean real korrjally ym

P/S, there are several grown men in this country. M/ himself,
degli Uberti; 'el Croix, the local seg/ polit/ etc.

why dont you try travel/ travel broadens th mind.

I'm sure to be sent home, and so am I, but I have not the money to pay for it!

## Volitionist economics

WHICH of the following statements do you agree with?

1. It is an outrage that the state shd. run into debt to individuals by the act and in the act of creating real wealth.

2. Several nations recognize the necessity of distributing purchasing power. They do actually distribute it. The question is whether it shd. be distributed as favour to corporations; as reward for not having a job; or impartially and per capita.

3. A country CAN have one currency for internal use, and another good both for home and foreign use.

4. If money is regarded as certificate of work done, taxes are no longer necessary.

5. It is possible to concentrate all taxation onto the actual paper money of a country (or onto one sort of its money).

6. You can issue valid paper money against any commodity UP TO the amount of that commodity that people WANT.

7. Some of the commonest failures of clarity among economists are due to using one word to signify two or more different concepts: such as, DEMAND, meaning sometimes WANT and sometimes power to buy; authoritative, meaning also responsible.

8. It is an outrage that the owner of one commodity can not exchange it with someone possessing another, without being impeded or taxed by a third party holding a monopoly over some third substance or controlling some convention, regardless of what it be called.

Answer to E. Pound

Via Marsala, 12/5. Rapallo.

Italy.

Mt Dear Colonel

I also if I have real contempt for man, and
when there is profound need to insult him, use the perlit e
language which has carried England into slavery.

If you hadn't had the money of England back of
you, your buying and ordering of grain in Arabia ( or whatever dump
it was ) wdn't have got you the world's front page ( wrapped up
in miracles etc. )

Either you are infinitely insincere, or you have a lacuna in
yr/ mental processes almost beyong my capacity for measuring.

A slave govt/ gov rned by irresponsible tyrants / who permit almost
no truth to be printed / may have produced you, and so have
warped you from man's nature that you just can't see
anything, or indulge in that li'l exercise which Arry Stotl
so admired, i;e; " the perception of relations ". 

As for fashionable themese. Eeon/ wasn't when I started.

People blah about production/ but distribution has only reached
the Bloomsbury soun, after 15 years as a suppressed topic/
and the monetary sytem is still almost taboo/ and banks
are adored by Britian, grovelling on its belly button/
" mustnt attack the bankers " // apprreciate yr/ name , cant you
write about silk embroidery or something that wont disturb our
overseers.

You acquiesce in the devastated areas/ because you are simply too lazy and too comfortable to trace anything to its origin/ cause/ you have given up any idea of duty/ and are I admit perfectly comfortable/

even / re both Cummings and Cocteau/ you aren't fit to read about 'em/ neither of 'em hides his head under his wing, for fear of what he might see.

Wonder if you have read my version of the Tauro/
I don't see how much cd/ stick in yr/ head, if you are
afraid to think of the realtion of thought to action.

Instead of good soporifics/ have a try at Douglas' weekly
alled " Social Credit " especially the detailed article called
the Chinaman's Shirt .

when you give me yr/ opinion of that half col/ mobbe I can
do something for you.

That half col/ is about EGGS

which aren't on yr/ list of forbidden subjects. not about cookery,
but about eggs/

Have you read all my stuff / it is better than a lot that gets
printed. Cantos 31/41 ought to be available soon in ang/
already out in U.S.

You may have had some physical courage at some stage of yr/ career
but moral and intellectual courage you just HAVE NOT.

Oxford/ is no better than any other University/ a place to
keep the young from dangerous thinking, a pervertory, a
an incubator of slaves and bureaucrats, might say over-slaves.
/ what do they call the cow that leads the others into
the slaughter house ?

Considering that Quinn sat up all night, getting the
committee of western senators to pass Wilson's nomination of
ZM Landing's successor, I reckon he know his Washington.

" 3 senators on 4 bottles ov Whisky, and at
4 oclock in the morning, Mr ...... Gilby wuz sekretary ov
state ".

I reckon he KNEW ( especially as C/ had been his
lwa partner for some years, and what he didn't know about
Colby isn't transferrable... ")

Disgust for a man he had kicked out of his
office, but C/ too good hearted to go back on a friend...
soft

WHY you persist in thinking I never have met anything but
a few artists, I dunno, praps its what you wd/ have done,
with my opportunities.

I admit Norman is a nice table companion/ but he is a
poisoner of wells/ most english in high office are
accomplices in crime they are too ignorant to understand,
and too comfortable to look into. Sincere supporters of
murder, unsuspecting bumies.

Two of the most likable chaps I have ever met are that ....
editor ( to use a stronger word than I had intended ) Lorimer, and
a gun tout.

I don't know how you feel about siphylis or syphilis bugs or
spirochetes / I don't know that knowledge of 'em wd/ breed love,
or that a man with full biological knowledge of them wd/
exactly be FOR them a public policy.

Violent language is merely
abbreviation/ anybody can spread it out/ and does when writing
DOWN either to an audience or a correspondent.

You still love an argument/
childish /

If you had seen my remarks on fascism, perhaps you wd/ lump me with
N/C/W/ on the subject of regimentation/

Mussolini or Freud./ I am for theuce. But not for
liberalist slosh.

Anybody can take the opium of steady work! I tried it
in textual editing of Cavalcanti/ went down into the very
nadir or philology/

For a man running away from his duty
nothing ed/ be more soothing than some tice tidy manuale
work/ huntin', painting or machine tending.

Look at Mr Hemingway chasing pussy cats.

Spinning wheel, no better than tennis/ more soporific/ vide
Hen Ford; and his theories.

Dear Mr Lawrence

Thanks for yr/ note. ( It will at any rate convince
Olga that I was not overstepping the bounds of courtesy in
a struggle toward brevity in my first one to you.

I wonder if I have come anywhere make it clear to you
that I am working ( or illuding myself into belief that
I am working ) nearer to ACTION
than you are.

THREE movements have come into ACTION : Corporate state in
Italy,

organization of production, improvement of crops,
drainage etc/ which I cant condense, but there is 14 years
of Italian history, and during the last year a distinct
turn toward monetary and banking reform/

culminating a couple of
weeks ago in Social Credit ( without Econ. democracy on the
ang/ sax or Witanagemot model ) but at least controrn of the
nations credit BY the most responsible officials OF the
Nation;

no longer by a gang of private thieves and plunderers.

One of the hardest working men in London is Montgomery Butchart

48 Bloomsbury St. But if you have an office in town or
cd/ make an appointment with him, it would be quickest modus
of OUR communicating.

He is aware of Social Credit, Freiwirtschaft, and the Corporate State.

Cd/ also lend you my books if you care enough about the subject
to examine the relation of yr/ own theory and plan with
that of extant/

At any rate I think you cd/ with NO sacrifice
of conviction help the PETITION to the King, which demands
a judicial investigation of the facts
of money monopoly,
exploitation etc.

Chief difference between Doug/ and esell is analogous to
difference between talley stick and swapping of cowries.

"regarding money as measured claim/

Inflation begins which the claim is against a vacuum

So long as the claim is against available WANTED goods ( and/or services, available and wanted ) it is SOUND.

when it is against fountain pen scrawl it serves as Founder of Eng/ knew for exploitation, and leads (crisis cycle) usual to crash.

Larkin and Co/ recently issued half a million dollars/ they had the goods/ My grandfater issued paper against "lumber or merchandise ".

Issuer must be honest/ state better than private company but need not be STUPIDER or merely sadistic.

Claim / O.K. if its measure is against something adequate, and if it is recognized.

Usury : another matter. Enormous drive against it. partly untempered by common sense.

McN. Wilson, etc. at any rate lowering of interest from 60% an 70% to 30% and 10% ( called 3% or 1.6% ) is a start.

BUT of course LIMERICK cuts down the rentiers' purchasing power.

A TIME for blue prints. But I think that has past. I mean construction on OTHER lines is already so far advanced. so MUCH further advanced than anyone cd. guess of British newspapers...

even IF yr/ idea is better than any of those now more widely recognized. YOUR most effective mode of advance would be via the petition.

Once that is accepted you will have a chance to present yr/ plan to an infinitely more serious jury and greater public than is in any other way possible.

The Italian Reform proves nothing to Italy. It means something totally different to anyone who believes in M. and Rossoni. ( I have personal impression, direct conversation ). Also the proof of the constructivism of the Regime here. At any rate it is as if Bank of Eng/ and the Big Five were subject to King and Parliament in England. and obliged to function pro bono of the NATION. I believe the direction here will be

Dear Mr Lawrence

GOOD. By being nearer to action I
dont mean ONLY in Italy, I have been hammering senators, writers
who have enormous publicity etc/

"e/ Law. There is a good deal to argue// a half truth/ a
state of debt in France/ etc.

I have written on it in various places.

Money here will not be issued save against material resources.

If I make an act of faith I at least have seen and talked
to some of the men who are doing the job.

human value of from a Balfour or a Duff Cooper or an Eden/

Very different

These nit-wits are brottle fed in a private world. Utterly
uncounscious of being damned scoundrels, pimps etc.

created by usurers,

straw men

Rothschild TOO invisible to be true in England.

cadishness of ALL that

It is the intellectual cadi

overbred strata that is the damnation of

England.

You meet a man who wd/ be kicked in ANY decent American com

some bloated ass

and then some elder chap tells you

" ah yes, but if you realized what a sad, chee/ildhood that fdd
family "

Well, all that's in England's misfortune.

'OUR observations are direct and objective, and that is what I 1
ike about them.

By nearer action I meant not only are "our" ideas going
into print in approved magazines here, under eye of
ministers

but I have got the banderillos into at least some
American officials including Roosevelt

who admits certain fact but
waits for PRESSURE.

"Crank" man who sees something but is ignorant of the
vast number of other people who have seen and been seeing it
from the days of Kublai Kahn or the Mohamedan caliphs.

I think you may as well see Bardsley, Soc Cr/
secretariat, 163 A. Strand. I believe he suffers from fact
or illusion of being very busy.

I am told that almost NONE
of the brethren have an manners until tamed.

Possibly Butchart wd/ display greater civility. and less
Impatience with variants.

There is one misprinted line in my article on The Church of Rome
in recent Social Credit ( two penny weekly ). shd/ be

1/2 % on fountain pen money, equivalent to 5% on soild
coin.

The presence of such an article IN the Secretariats own paper
shows growing tendency to recognize a tradition with variants
and not the first sunrise of a new and patented sun.

time up/
lead interim.

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39, JERMYN STREET.

W.1.

August, 1937.

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