ORA/7

E. worried by Brancaleone ; so much personal matter, so little thought re/ what WHO ever governs must face. Communist matter, very little seen here, but items show thought. Also Togliatti, Nenni, Sarragat photos in "Life" much pleasanter than DeGaspari's. The violent have outlawed themselves // not " si sono " but hanno illegalizzato se stessi. Possible to get Vare to look at Mencius I.i. 7 / 18 /// II, i. 5/2 and especially III, i, 3/6 and to end of chapter, re/ tithe vs/ fixed tax. also further chapters in bk III. As it is fashion to be antifascist, one cd/ be so in an intelligent manner, attacking the absolute perversion of the amassi. Mencius sets the just rate of what should be brought to amassi. Decently intended to make sure the grower should not be left with produce unsold, the fascist amassi ( as I take it still continued ) are idiotic, conscription ( attempted ) of product, into centre, that usually cheats, and double work of redistribution of ( inferior quality in case of olive oil ) to produce producers who should have KEPT what they wanted and what can be used locally by neighbors who want it.

All taxes except Gesellite stamp are assassins of culture, the stamp is a PROPORTIONAL tax on a product, a tax IN KIND, not in something someone else produces AND monopolizes.

Emilio Bodrero ?? the old General ? whose soninlaw said he ( E.B.) had guessed WRONG every time ? or one of Lidia's brothers ( if she has any ?)

basta che ci sono intre who are willing to THINK, o bastarebbe.

re/ Cione. Believe Croce to be a slob, did he ever protest the assassination of General

ORA/

Thanks for the chinoiserie. YES, they wd/ pick a bit of
bricabrac, a Chinese Mallarme, rather than a chink who
had thought of anything pertinent.

Are there ANY serious characters left in the stricken
peninsula ?

Were Corti's books on the Rothschild translated and published
in Italy ? Absolutely the first serious prose work on XIXth
century history.

I know this is belated news ⚠ as they had great
publicity at the time, 1928.

One got the general results, but not
the mass of useful detail, and the indication of mental
squalor then raging

( unless , of course, all the intelligent
opposition has been snowed under by the infamy of controlled
"free" press, intervening. )

ANYhow, disgusting spectacle ,
and NO efficient curiosity was, aroused with vigour to
last on thru ,

and, shall we say, preventing Lubin's from
supposing that a price in an indefinite medium wd/ CHINESE
CURE the trouble.

The stink associated with Metternich's name, perfectly just, but
Browning and the rest got only the romantic swish;
Byron having been got by the Mann act

At any rate a reprint of the Corti is due, the work is not
anti-yift, as the worst slime were catholics, Dentz, the elector
of Hesse etc./ all Corti's I know are yodds and the bk/
published by the squirmy Gollancz, so that I a tactful wop
cd/ approach it with without thinking of the last remaining
phrase in the Good Friday service.

When you think that some British KNOWH slob did a 2 vol
Life of Cavour with only two bits of history, one about
i/3 page and one 2/3rds, shows where tolerance had
been debased to, and the utterly vomitorious befuzzlement
of "education". historiography, etc.

Again ask: any news of Notari ?

D. says Vare's english bk/ is fluff, but non-poisonous,
am waiting to see it.

Stability of great chinese dynasties due to low tax rate.
about 12% maximum, at least in theory. I don't spose the
Shool of Oriental bugwash, or prof/ WhatzisMallarme wd/
condescend to THOUGHT on that level.

The term honour completely eliminated from american scene, and
"courage" idem from the halls of learning. braghe molle, the
bricabrac lot of 'em.

Low tax( no need to delegate power to high-tax) automatic
protection against swelling of bugocracy. The "ins" wd/ not
want to share with newly created offices.

Anyhow, as proper Carbonaro, %/, one can thank Corti for
spectacle of Vienna borrowing herself out of existence. And

Neapolitan royalty got its due.

Some serious writing in
Ecrits de Paris / glad to
any of yr/ friends have
know if
seen any elsewhere.

I knew one Bourbon, who hadn't learned
inconvenience of not being able to "get
money".

P.S. and Pierre Mille: surely there is another dirty dog/ or since /2i6/ doggy aggunce of cats/ hv/seen three in ONE ball moving rapidly. and aged Veneziana, exclaiming if rightly remember. " sporca la tua Maa". Engla a cad for 30 years in dealing with Italy.

4. What's idea calling you " Agresti-Rossetti"/ some extra elegant turn, known only at Circolo di Caccia ?

Sez his pa/ worked with Dan. Manin. Was he a RELATION of Manin?

CHEERS and WREATHES/ p. 177 he REALLY GIT TO IT. brass tacks, and DEBT. Giv him my compliments/ mebbe his feather duster technique is necessary to get it over. IF it does get over. when the sow reader is not thinking.

and giv himthe enc/ clip/ wiff me complimenGs.

BUTT good GAWD/ p.187 / why wdnt an exhibit of metals interest Birmingham Small Arms ( or am I misled as to the " background"/"

O.K. that any country needs literate officials. and Damn Starce. the fact that it might have bored C/ to meet S/ granted.

comes to OLD OLD story, people do NOT meet. cliques, snobs, coral insects. DAMN Starace, but How cd/ V. stomach Ciano?

p/ 200. strenght was with the FACTS. and no brit/ not having six times the influence with the press that ANY other country had cd/ have made any headway . Lies. damn , and again damn 'em.

I wonder xwhat possible excuses V/ cd/ have trumped up for the brits/ ? is he going to mention ANY in the next few pages ? Does he ever meet Villari, or was V/ too low in the sacred hierarchy to breathe the same air. Dont recall Villari owning a dog, or mentioning the Circolo. surely he knows the brits/ as well as Vare.

Brit/ Insteroot in Firenze / thazZZa , nize gang , also. do I repeat ?

Firenze porca , Behrenson's bugwash, Anima di Placci, non anima placida.

AND did yu ever see Behrenson's dirty obit on Placci, entitled " Profilo romano. ? .

Peritalia can't have been very active, as I never heard of it till now.

What's become of Moran? If still alive, might be useful. and who the hell ever found Ma Strong hard to get onwith ?

well as to prejudice / I shd/ think my view was founded on Aristotelian progressionfromparticulars to general view. there are such an AWFUL lot of nasty ones, take 'em one by one, to putt against yr/ sacred Lubin. and Steed, living with a she one, does remark on saturation. " wherever" MORE than " two or three are gathered, etc."

admit I wd/ now say . lay off 'em and . use incinerator on all every and anyone capable of not having smelt Roosevelt's stench. in time.

I dont wonder that it was difficult to communicate with the great hog via officialchannels. if V/ wants another fancy title he might ( in view of current press releases ) take " The two hundred buggars?" ( parallel the 47 Rohans, or Rohnans, or however he likes to translate it.) Amusing he shd. have known " Tubby" Street. I have repeatedly tried to get Street's books back into print, unavailingly.

A V/ knows such a LOT of nasty people ( pubrs/ etc. ) he might be more successful.

O.R.'A.

Villari's interesting, will be dealt with at first opportine.

The weariness, reading Cione, infact ALL of 'em. Does V/ meet or
correspond with any of 'em. There were honest men like Soldato
who went with the republic DESPITE the socialization, sacrificing
their good sense to desire for unity. Now PRIMO: I never in
the 20 years met an anti-fascista who wasn't a god damned fool.
But to socialize from under the wheels INSTEAD of from the
Credit / is plain stupidity. There is all C.H.Douglas' THOUGHT
to consider. There is Bryan's confession to Kitson etc.

B. Abbot and others see danger of centralization of power. and there is DANGER. The evil is not private issue of private money but private ( and monopilistic issue of PUBLIC purchasing power. )

pur/pow INCLUDES credit and money. Money being properly PRESENT tense, the product of WORK and NATURE, or certificate of deposit of same, existence of same, DELIVERABLE existence of same,

not Lawes' error. Cannot issue money against LAND, or anything
undeliverable. Credit is the future of money.

Must reexamine Aristotle's terminology. XKEAH XREIA, if I remember rightly, obscured in Loeb edtn/ translation.

needed ( or wanted ) deliverable goods. MOKAH Work as MEASURE now assumed, even in Mercure de France 1947. Measure of value not the same thing as certificate of existence of product. arguments re/ Russia now mostly based on how many hours work the goddam moscovite has to do to get a given object (whatever ). . . . Douglas 30 years ago ; ERP. ???

I shall prob/ die of stroke from rage at idocy of people
who nevr read the authors I recommend, at least not without
30 or more years time lag.

Villari has got to Mommsen. he NEEDS Douglas and Gesell.

He needn't write about 'em. Its Cione who needs the light. Socialists nearly as bad as Hen.Georgites. Pellegrini rather "dumb". Then of course a lot of 'em dont read english. Bodrero, hopeless ?

Pini left out a question mark ?? when talking about sanita morale of the eyetalyans ? I grant Pini's sanita morale, but WHAAA wish it were more contagious. contagious

Who's the DiMarzio mentioned without prenom ? now doing something or other.

and of course goddamit ALL over the occident, this estial stopping of the mind at the Tigris and Euphrates, ham ignorance of Chinese history and thought.

private AND irresponsible, and they havent even read the American constitution.

A.R.O
A.R.O

Notes from E P, received recently.

Have Villari or someone get in touch direct with
Ronald Duncan
Meade Farm
Welcombe, nr Bude, Cornwall, England
for Duke of Bedford and agronomy.

Report from Italian conversation - 7 campi, rendered
QUATTRO milioni from PEANUTS, in the Veneto. But used for oil. Got to get BUTTER idea into their blocks re arachidi. And into ALL of 'em: Alberi e Cisterni. Arachidi, Acero Soja.

If AMERICAN U.S. E, bassy in London can get Japanese
Kadzu seed for Duncan; the same gang in Rome can
be made to do the decent re A, erican seed for Italy.
If somebody TELLS, goddamit, t'ell with 'em.

When is plenty you money-reform.

When abundance has been bitched you AGRONOMY.

None of the Italian papers has yet mentioned, arachidi,
soja, acero

(Not clear whether Brooks Adams HAS been translated
- published - in Italian? Or what other of
books recommended by E.P. o

as Jean Cruet's La vie du droit - pubd 1914

Wm. E. Woodward's New American History
/pubd by Farrar and Rinehart - said to
be a stunning thing)

Mathews prob/ knew no one else who wd. have known
what it ( Il Convito ) was/ but even he wd/ have felt
the inadvisibility of injecting me ( a.d. 1008 or 09
into the so serious ambience. ) Wdn't it hv/ been
a bit like de Gourmont's Marquise who had " never before
met an american ". Or had Emerson called ?

Where the deuce is yr/ sister ? I dont recommend
manicomii for war nerves...charming as some of the
criminal patients are. She prob/ cdn't qualify for a
criminal ward.... I dont mean that ALL murders are
genial souls , but still, take 'em by and large ...
I have had some good friends among 'em. Greatly regret
dear old S/ who dropped off with a heart attack , etc.

Dick is wrong on one or two minor points.

Riccardo degli Uberti

I dont know if there is any way to reach him / the letter he
wrote to the Merlo is very fine , but ?? misprint
" raramente " makes it less useful. Whether he wrote 'veramente
or simply ( being inarmy ) didn't know how often I spoke.
but the " raramente " cd/ be used to weaken force of the rest
of defence. ( Merlo Giallo No. 127/ 7 Sept .

I wonder if they are still at 18H via Domenico Chelini ( if
16

IF that was the address, out by Barca di Remembranza
unfinished church.

//

re/ guilds, O.K. but let 'em read Mommsen, and understand
that AUTARCHIA is right / and that the liberi scambisti are
noodles. Ital/ agriculture ruin'd by dumping cheap
grain from Egypt, even Antoninus P/ didn't stop that, //

battaglia del grano, also study the U.S. constitution,
ALL it needs is enforcement, and yr/ guilds can be
fitted in, need BOTH trade representation AND geographic
as in HHH 1800 here, when different states meant
different KK agricultural interests, and shipping.

AND to learn neutrality from Svizzera ?

and so on
benedictions.

there is also a little NECESSARY history ( data ) in Cantos , if they
cd/ ever get over their prejudice against poetry , or superstition
that Walt Pater and aestheticism were the last word , and nowt but
pickin dasies ( OR celanDAMNdine ) permitted.

What I mean re/ degli Ub/ is that

"raramente" can be explained

as printer's error , but Ub/ must know and not make
the mistake again , even in conversation/as it detracts
from his authority. His father definitely knew the
nature of my work. Mrs d/U/ may hv thought I only
transmitted when in Rome or once each visit.

Might try in time to get some EP poetry to ORA.
When she sees Villari will she ask him if he has
enough cash balance on hand to buy the
Breglia " Punto di vista Monetaria " and send it
here. 32-16 Place S.E.

( ? Cagliostro )

Has Callogero read ANY chinese philosophy or does he still
mug round in a world bounded on the East by Tigris and Euphrates.??
If he has a job he probably does NOT want to face any N
matter not already chewed in undergrad/ days. Is he worth
sending a copy of Pivot to ?

S.Johns and nearly all american beaneries ham ignorant of
the orient, and mean to stay so.

And Chinese philosophy outside the Confucian school just as
useless and occidental or mesopotamian. LaoTse, acc
all versions yet seen, just as slithery as the yidds. Sheer
subversive.

V. much like to get Nicoletti's address. dont know Capitani
but may have met him and not caught name.

NO american printed matter can be considered as statement of fact /certainly NO periodical reports of Europe / that stuff was sent to inform V/ what sort of 'trype was current here.

I suppose the perlite way to putt it to Cagliostro is: Does he
WANT his mind to stay bounded on the East by the Tigris
and Euphrates ?

I note in Harry-stop-her-knees

with several other current rubs and ribs, including operation on
acquisitive .

O.R.A.

O.R.A.

I see by th' papers that DelCroix is not only alive but speaking
at Trieste in A.N.Z. June. ("eridiano June 12) pays to read the
small print. Now THERE is a president fer yr/ wretched country
and be it remembered that when I told him about Gesell, he beat on his
head with his little wooden hands, shouting " Che magnifica idea"/
grabbed the phone and called to Bottai to come" over here"( Veteran's
building). Onforchoonately B/ was just leaving office to catch train
to Napoli. DelC/ said on his own: Two evils: legalization of usury
in banks, and of theft in Soc/ Anon/. Dane who paid for printing
"Oro e Lavoro" also seems to be or to have still been alive, vide Gray's
art/l in same issue. CONfound this habit people have of never
meeting or speaking to each other. DelC/ ought to GET the idea into
Pellizzi's cloudy noddle, and into Pettinato's. Nobody runs ANY
erands or rubs two peoples' heads together.

Order out to chase that Lubin book/ still no idea( as you never were
very precice) what virtues he had other than messopotamian origin.
score two fer Nazareth? However, patiently awaiting light from
printed page, if it hasn't been burried. Guerriero had heard of him,
after some reflection said: Practical Idealist ?

to get rid of the Vatican, and the Pacelli gang/ as it is you hv/
had a barbarian invasion and NOT got rid of the vatican.

interesting note in a dhirty paper called Mondo, re/ Ricasoli and the
lesser clergy' as vs/ the stinkers) if using ideas in conversation,
DONT fer garzake indicate the whence.

You cant expect me to be serious ALL the time in the lesser manicomio.

N.B. there seem to be TWO Guerriero/ the one here is NOT
the one in Italy, at least the name is not the same. both initial A.
cant find name of the one in italy at the moment.

GOLDRAT't/ CIRCULATION / Gesell stamp the only clear solution/
with that, what goes OUT must come back. CIR-CU-LATION.
nobody seems to be clear about that in ANY other system.

PE/rusin' "D.Lubin" by ORA. ( sfar as remember sd/ authoress
never stated clearly that SHE writ a bloomink bk/ on the
subject / arrived at p 85. Dave seems to have got to
some sane conclusions by a murky route / but no matter.
Mommsenn or 4000 years of China wd/ have served

// However the four clean pages of the O.T. functioned
in that case.

Has ORA seen recent thesis that democracy ( in decencet sense
entered the occidental mind when the esuits began translating
Confucius, and folouered in the XVIII when C/ became
more accessible. ?

The particular typed D.L. loathed seem rather to have
riz in the interim.

This habit of NO ONE ever speaking to anyone else. ORA
ignorant of Doug and Gesell, and they of Dave L/ WHEN
a little communication wd/ have been useful.

The devils two horns and STINK emerge on p. 120 / in the single
phrase." world's importing centre." There shd/ be no importing
or exporting centre? that is the filth / that is the
crevice thru which all the helis of monopoly get their
grip. Ghandi much saner . autarchy much saner.

O.R.A. 2

2.

All this change to manage, by dirty bugrocrats. Dave
put one over on you. All this drift to control imposed
from above by irresponsible IGNORAMUSES. The further
they get from the growing spot the less they know.
Nobody got brains enough to legislate for the ends of the
earth.

The curse of Geneva. Civilization moves
outward from a nucleus. Peripheric location (Calif) gives
rise to peripheric state of mind. No intuition of damage
this universalism contained for civilization of centres.

naturally there is "something to be said for" desire
of California to DUMP. Vide end of Anatole France's "Penguin"

Liverpool, the centre / Messopotamian brigands holding up
communication between China and the Mediterranean.

PRICES ( world or anywhere else, above what you can reach by
barter on the spot ) or at least NOW are measured in MONEY ,
and as long as that is faked Mr Dave L/ can whistle.

up to page 120 he hasn't spotted the chief Geryon.

"price formation" conjurer's black handkerchief. Price is
formed on the field / deformed by finance.

all L's thought re/ transport very valuable. O.K. oh yuss.

interception of exchange by traffic monopoly no worse nor
better than by money monopoly,

but this hooey about "all" is buncomb. The messopotamian
Machtreligion. Mohammedans tainted. Nothing clean save
from China or, let us to say AFTER Sophokles.

incidentally I heard the "Grange" has gone rotten.
No doubt L's ideas have flooded this lumatic and devastated country.
whereby their limitation is indicated.

All part of the MAN mania of outer space,

His sanity consited in working FROM Sacramento. That is proper,
and his desire for just measure/ but up to p. 120
JOSH HUGHES HAHN HAHN HAHN HAHN no indication that
dollar is not a fixed length or weight.

"tarrif a local issue". Did he ever mention Kitson?

OR consider tax problem ? ( am not trying to minimize his
work / but one cant stop at 1916.

Did Lubin really think Wanamaker fit to sit on a committee
to decide ????

awaiting back on Medici bank. re/ Lub/ the Este probably
had the answer. there is dead fish in wanting world wide
etc/etc/ before you get sanity in any given area.

How long did Ferrara go without war? Borso seems to have
got somewhere near reign of abundance ?

Via Ciro Menotti, 36

Rome, 1.II.'48.

Dear Ezra Pound:

I have by me a letter of yours about the Italian radio services during the war with messages for Varè and Villari, and also an interesting cutting on arachidi, which I pass on to the "Olearia" which is carrying on a very active propaganda to promote the cultivation in Italy of all oil-seed plants, among others of sun-flower and soya, and has also published many accounts of arachidi. Unfortunately the cutting I had through you does not state in what publication it appeared. It is strange to think of the sunflower in an economic connection; it always suggests to me "Oh sunflower weary of time, who watcheth the face of the sun - seeking after that sweet golden clime, - where the traveller's journey is done"! Strange what a haunting power such verses have. I learnt them when I was a child and now at 73 they constantly recur to me.

Varè

Varèxri has been out of town, but now he is back and I must show him your letter. I saw Villari last Sunday and he was much interested in a letter you had sent him. He will do all he can along the lines you suggest, and is writing to you himself. The world seems sinking more and more into economic chaos and senseless bloodshed. Even poor Ghandi has been slaughtered while praying and fasting to secure the cessation of the mutual massacre of Hindus and Mahomedans. The self-righteous English connive at massacres of Italians in Mega discio, and then call on Italy to join them in a crusade for safeguarding Western Civilisation! I quite agree with your views about F.D.R. Whenever I think of him the thought synmmons up the verses of Dante about Cherione: "La faccia sua era faccia d'uom giusto - tanto benigno avea di fuot la pelle - e d'un serpente tutto l'altro fusto". And the monster is introduced by this other terzina "Ecco la fiera con la coua aguzza, -che passa i monti e rompe muri ed armi - ecco colei che tutto il mondo apuzza". I had a very dear friend, Grace Channing Stetson, and when I was in New York in 1937 she was dying; I went to see her, and she said in a faint voice "I always say my prayer every day", I did not quite know what she was talking about, but said "that's right"; then she added "I pray that he may die!" Then I knew to whom she was referring. Had her prayer been answered how much suffering, what untold disasters might have been avoided! But perhaps we are both unjust, and the real fact is that our civilisation has worked itself up to a point when it must collapse under its own weight, and we are witnessing the crash. I fear no currency reform would be able to correct the situation; Men have gone whoring after false gods, success, money, power; they no longer see the beauty of the world and of the simple pleasures, What is needed is more than currency reform; the scales must fall from our eyes, we need to reacquire vision and xxx hearing and to become once more aware of the great spiritual truths on which alone a sane sound life can be founded.

Surely it is time that you were back in Italy; but I am sure you are doing good work in the U.S. and are directing the minds and thoughts of many to realise the need of looking in new directions for the peace they all long for and none seem to know how to secure. The latest French movement with the franc is surely a revival of currency dumping and will arouse the ire of the American monetary pundits. Here we are dancing on the crust of a volcano, but the young people "shake the light fantastic toe" and are determined not to be done out of all the fun to which they feel they are entitled; and I think they are right. The tragedy is for the young men who have to find a place in life; almost all paths seem blocked. Many look to emigration as the only possible outlet; but there are again so many blocks stand in the way.

Cordi,

Dear O.R.A.

E. reading L.V's book. Thinks it has struck
useful and prudent note. Does not want to embarass V. by direct
questions ; doubts that L.V. ever understood a single
word E ever spoke to him/

different angles of approach.
Official, dull but safe quarterly reviews m etc.

Question is whether V's publishers are yet ready to
touch ANY of E's writing , some of which is instructive,
and " will have to be digested sometime ".

E. relieved to hear Paresce still alive /
wonders if he sees Pellizzi ?

////

E.P's Cantos appear to be at last actually available, and on
sale. Could send copies to people who want them, but he
doesn't want to impose them on people, and they require
adequate knowledge of English.

now that the whole 80 are in one volume
serious students begin to see that there is 30 years work in
them, and a very condensed method of writing, not obscurantism,
but juxtaposition of concrete MN facts in a such a way that
they cannot be falsified by abstraction or quoted to mislead,

whether it would be useful to tell people that two printers
dominated by communist or Wallaceite or more obscure
forces refused to print them . . . , which accounts in part
for delay.

better that some readers start with the Pisan( last eleven )
though the chinese history and life of John Adams are needed
to see the shape of the poem ( not yet finished , but at least
the shape can now be divined.

7y.30.

It seems likely that a bloke named Albert Schweitzer has got on the track of the truth, playing back, and being a medical missionary 20 years in Africa. Haven't yet had his text. various ecclesiasts are annoyed. (this opinion not yet documented, but he seems to have got a sane

O.R.A.

re/ the dirty bit of work from Tarsus ( not denying his merits ). The Xtn( Christian) is basically dishonest from the minute he starts professing belief in a formula which he either does not believe, or does not understand. This dates from Tarsus. And is why no beastly prot/ ever expects truth from a catholic.

J.C. indubitably had a good chunk of the true tradition, BUT the yidd already had Leviticus XIX / so there is no use pretending those pius sentimengs differentiate the Christer from the yitt/ The bulk of Jewish law is nothing but a wheeze, however, to jerk fines out of the populace for the benefit of the chnens and lavis.

Zielinsky has neatly shown that all the dogma worth a damn came from greek mysteries etc/ everything that built the cathedrals.

Yr friend Lubin notes this tother way on/ i.e. that the Christers lugged in pagan elements. ( Thank gawd fer that. )

Now the root of hell may be double / I. signing statements in incomprehensible language, or that the signer believes to be bunk ( for political reasons, faut de mieux. Pacelli as the ONLY alternative to Moscow, or any other shortsighted expeciency.

and second / the idiocy which places gawd in outer space / eyes on ends of the cosmos /

panta hraí / but not as water down a dran /

anyone not an ape or green anarch or atheist shd/ be able to see EVIDENCE in the pattern of the first leaf he picks off a willow or any other damn tree.

Decent religion respects heaven AND earth / and the fanatical imbecility of the Xtns/ leaves out the mustard seed. substituting after the dumb ox Aquinas sub

an abstration. Paganism, Roman Impero etc/ was based on slavery and buggary and ergo unsatisfactory / Xtianity, with all its lies and forgeries, brought a bit of civilization into barbarian continents /

Kung gives what a man can believe without kidding himself.

and Pacelli cant represent AH divinity, at least not to anyone who hasn't pulled wool autarchicly over their own peepers.

The good wop is Ghibbeline/ and the vatican is the enemy of a good part of civilization, the preferable to sher savagery /tartar hordes, Roosevelt, Churchills and other forms of decomposition.

mi spiego ?
and universal money controlled by swine at greatest remove is
only the worst form of planning. The further from
the field / and starting when the ammasso is compulsory
the mearer the usuer's nest egg.

O.R.A. 2

trying to git down to bedROCK and STAY there. 99% of all planners are either deliberate crooks, or hired dukes of same. Granted that Lubin was fighting a swindle/ it amounts to false news/ NO use stabilizing or getting a "just" price in faked monetary units. The planners are xHHH nearly all up to one very old swindle/ namely restriction of output / as per centuries usage, since the Portagoose uprooted spice tress after getting to Goa. to keep up price on restricted market.

Lubin is PRE Douglas, pre Gesell/ bHHH both the latter go on from where the sainted( but also ) hallucinated by outer space Lubin, left off. HHH yr/ strafe with interest.

I await

For fell for the planners/ And less danger of local famine EVEN with autarchy, than when price, via money is juggled by usurers situated at 10000 miles distance, where the farmer cant kill 'em. And where they by nature ignore local conditions, but almost NEVER care a damn what they are.

The mortgage holder ( bond holder ) don't care if the company or farm fails. He forecloses and "reorganizes" at pleasure. and the goddam gov falls for it.

Heaven AND earth / nothing cd/ be more idiotic than a religion that has put corsets on the holy mystery of fecundity. In fact, xtiarity is one of the worst hoaxes. No hoax ever wortned without enough truth in it to be plausible.

difficult, of course, for a local bishop whose claim to world tryanny is based on a forged document, to exercise SIMPLE honesty.

Suspect the church been on the down grade since ABHMH
Ambrose / occasionally kicked into temporary decency by
refinement or rise of general standard of manners ( concordat
or zummat. ) But any religion however dirty is better than
none at all. mi spiego ?

Protestantism ABSOLUTELY anti-religious / a yell for honesty vs/ the vatican's lies. Every injection of a bible ( anthology of conflicting views that has imbecillito the vidd for 2500 years ) has pejorated christianity. As long as there was proper ceremony and hocuspocus ( as in funeral show even now ) there was chance of xtianity and religion cohabiting. Practically nothing authentic but a few gestures, which fortunately

nothing authentic but a few gestures, which fortunately
Pacelli and ∞/ dont understand or they wd/ abolish 'em.
m/ spiego ?

Ovid nearer the what tha that squirt Aquinas.
truth

But fer garzache let em go on being catholic, with their tiddledeewiddldies / and even their theo-canibalism / ANYthing rather than a half educated lout in a bare barn ergotizing about theology, into which he has had no proper initiation.

Anybody who has looked at a maple-leaf can do without further demonstration that Marx didn't make the world, and that mud is an unlikely origin.

ONLY what a blessing it wd/ be for Italy if the Vatican cd/ be planted in Patagonia, or even Tel Aviv.

Question of method/ the Lubins will always be used and exploited by

scoundrels. Roosevelt Sieffs who do NOT want honesty or
bonifica in home district and who USE world schemes to
disguise and cover local dishonesty/ pie in sky or in the
FUTURE ' never the now and the here. Autarchy was functioning
a chartonic drive.

## ORA 3.

DAMN the man, why the hell shdn't Europe or any country
produce its own grain? The mesopotamian fallacy, curse of
humanity. Have you YET got my Chinese dynasty cantos ?
52/61 ? AND machines make no manure.

30% wallawalla, as long as he boycotts question of monetary
issue.
Until the producers / FARMERS, say farmers, start controlling
the issue of their own money ... gosh....
evil not public use of public money, but private issue of
public money. private issue of private money ...wangled by
banks, but at least some weight against central tyranny
IF any govt. ever touched the real issue.

Injustice, imbecility INSIDE every area / if you cd/
(aw? was don inWorgl) get justice inside ANY area it wd/
be a start and model.
WHY shd/ a farmer sell at world
price ? habit, or idiocy. autarchy much saner.
Import what NOT produced at home. China B.C.
natural NOT artificial price of transport favour the LOCAL
product.

Lubin; story of a search. conditioned ( as you admit)
by ignorance, and insensitivity, traditional. but not going back
to Moses cleverness in ruling out images, cause L/ didn't know what
egyptians used 'em FOR. Also of course lack of catholic confessions
-al, repentence, contrition etc. Nothing like Xtianity to keep
alive resentment ( as per/ nigger lunatic warning ME against
Judas.) force of myth. I dont suppose you cd/ do additional
chapter, and a reissue, showing evils of planning. God curse
the Fabians." ta 'ihna ta dhina!" etc. No. that is unconfucian
we will not kuss the damn nuissances, they punish themselves.

This DAMNED habit of nobody meeting anyone else. No sign L/
ever heard of Kitson or Brooks Adams/ any italian edtn/ of yr/
book ?

captains annonam maledictus in plebe sit.
St Amb/

also Ari/ on Thales.

Have the bloody swine of UNO and Unesco done ANYTHING to
continue work L/ started. ( probably have to be boiled in oil
and reborn in a caul, before that ).

very skeptical re/ world price being fixed by ANY reality
other than the swinishness of saboteurs in finance and transport.

ad interim.

still stinking with the assumption : lavoro un merce.
perfume of the time ( 1904). Not L's fault. And of
course immense retrogression toward it, with Woodrow the filthy
out in front.

V.A.O

ORA

In a vol/ of *Memoirs yu wd/ not be expected to follow the declaration of that stinkingest of Eng/ poeks and " justify the ways of gawd to" the etc.. Our generation suffered from ignorance / WHIGnorance putt over by yr/ friends the ****, whose dhirty work in the Regius prof/ships is more tremenJusly going forrard under the auspisses of the murkn/ University system. an occasional note of satire damages no narrative style. //

I think we have used the frenchmans' 'x' Non . l'homme n'est pas descendu du singe, MAIS nous y arriverONS !! at any rate one of my favorite exacpe mechanisms . I find Del Mar whoopin up the Lubins back in 1879. Pity Lubin never found it out / or did he conceal the gt/ historian's existence from .... well probably from sheer iggurence. //

ef V/ warnt a cousin of Manin's, what IS wrong with his Anschauung ? gawd knoze I dont insist onthere bein only ONE cause fer ALL sorts of kussedness. Patrizia's character reported superior to that of the Principino's. so FAR, but these here STILL etc. To keep on with the "2 Imposter's" question / where did M and V. pere meet and form their amitie ? I've been down to look at the gates, and the upper room, all in a HHH friendly manner.

Memoirs wd/ hew quite a lot wood IF you cd/ bootleg even part of the 32 historic FACTS that our generation, and that of our immejit forebears was hokus'd OUT of hearing of. begining in Chiny 1766 B.C. and comin down to Del Mar's gt/ haul. Roman rate 1 gold 12 siler, Indian rate 1 to 6 ( or 7 ). The bitch Caesar jumped it from 9 to 12 before gittin his on the Ides. In fact the bumbling of the gt/ historians VERY interesting. and Del M/ quietly going on from Humbult and Agassiz ( so far not duplicating anything I had dug. ¤) BUTTTT tyke it frum grampaw : the Univs. fer the past 70 years have stunk WORSE than even I had thought.

Swabey been trying for months to get catholic bish/ econ/ manifesto, 1939 ( or '40) but it is evidently too good fer the hierarchy.. I dont suppose I had an extra copy , or even gave you definite indications of it.

Thanks for looking in phone bk/ you might ask if any of yr/ select circle has nooz of him.Monro.

This country is swarmin with decadent Adams's/ dont recall an aussie/ and anarchists gimme a pain, esp/ when they use ploot money to run their papers/ one nice pair here do their own printin and take it to post in donkey cart/ BUT they ait vurry intelligent. Best govt. is that governs LEAST. AND sovreignty inheres in cort rol of coinage. Del M/ VERY sane that convertibility is a trifle in cf/ ability to inflate and deflate.

at least the gang in cellar of fambly" tomb" had sense to gather/ drivveling imbecility in U.S. is coralinsectivism. NO sense of collaboration.

I dont LIKE Chartres. Any romanesque, S.Zeno, Appolinaire ( Ravenna) preferable. I dont mind liftin a new Div. Com, but never found out how to make one stone climb onto another. Besides Artemis more simpatica. Temple sacred because not for sale. even tho they putt the banks inthe cellarage.

Now as to MEMOIRS , do be serious., there is immense interest in

2

every scrap concerning Dante Gbe/ Fordie deified Christina,
as to fantasy, I spose yr/ pa was occasionally seen without
a tophat, but no one wd/ leam this from Fordie. Vivid recollect
of D.G. VERY ventru, flat on back on v. short sofa, etc. no one
supposes yr pa was responsible for the greater infamies of brit/
policy/ not the Threadneedle variety. AND yr/ dear sister, if
she has a sense of humour, does NOT show it in writing. A
lighter touch... also Fordie prob/ telescoped his boredom with
Wm. Morris etc. DID yu evr read " Simple Life Limited" ?
prob/ not. Yr dear cousin F. contributed largely to the world's
entertainment, gawd rest his obesity. Anyhow the cellar of
the fambyl VAULT shd/ bring in more than Berlitz, and
anarchy however silly is better than the Fabian verminization.

all yu need do is take it EASY. There is no graphic
representation, even of Oliver in a topper descending from
Hansom keb// one awful 40 years later, no I suppose 30
years later, inParis, hi entering F's humble dwellin' and
seeing a vast flabby, and for moment mistaken fer F/ figure
with Julie on its knee / as if F/ had greatly decomposed
over night. Also O/ capering round the rue de whatever tennis
court in sox. for gawdknowz why. Not having tennis shoes.

all of which does NOT heave in grief and responsibility
for old Jenny C's not having had her miscarriage six months
sooner, and thereby saving the world.

Yu prob/ have NO version of
the cab and bullock story. And as fer Gabe's vagaries, one
suspects the lydy wiff a nek wd/ have driven any lesser man
to something more deadly than chloral. All of which probably
before you were takin' notice. AND the present world of
cinders and garbage looks back to that GOLDEN era/ oh
yus. and Mr Browning present ? or exclusively tea-ing wiff
Duchesses ? and Mazzini. No! there is MATTER.... a
soulagement for WHHH weary readers in a 20th. century
bolge.

Helen argues too much against the wrong picture,
but a gentle flow giving the right one, and NOT supposing
that everyone took Violet au pied de la lettre. etc.
I take it you never met that charming and kindly woman, with
an inherited tongue, and a love of language/ as a musician
tries out notes toward a melody/ often with DEELightful
results, and the lightning striking where it damn well shd/

AS perspective consider anera where one is driven to
monologue( often) to keep the conversation from sogging.
AND so forth.

I suppose ignorance plus pomposity was the trouble, but
the pomposity has prob/ been over done, there must also have
been jocularity. shift has been toward plain slander,
before Del Mar a lot of history was , I take it, simply
unknown, tho the Whigs felt need of concealing it en masse,
rather than in known detail. Del M/ approaching
correct analysis even when didn't kno canonists HAD
seen distinctions. anyhow, he has put all subsequent
history OUT of date inso far as it has ignored him.

Agassiz and Humbolt WRITE/ much better than Emerson etc.
because theyare not TRYING to impress the pore bdy/ r/r but
to TELL him what they had seen.

ASD

ORA vide verso

all of which links inwith PeloPardi cause / Del M/ shows
deep mining ( anything more than pāacer wash ) ruins the
land, FOREVER, makes deserts that stay deserts.
Haven't yet got his" Rape of the Earth". Del M/ pro yitt ( or at

land, FOREVER, makes deserts that stay deserts.
Haven't yet got his" Rape of the Earth". Del M/ pro yitt ( or at
last swallowed legend of nobl/ pepole, etc. at start and
did not return to their capacity as carriers of germs. )
and whoopin it up pro/ Xtn, tho objectin to lies. Hesus
on altar under Nut DAMN bein name of Bacchus, and still so
purrnounced inSpain, etc. ) anyhow, no need to stir up bigots
by that part of hig'swork. Clearest head that ever wrote about money.
as KeynES WHEN positive RIGHT answers shd/ be our whole

and whoopin it up pro/ Xtn, tho objectin to lies. Hesus
on altar under Nut DAMN bein name of Bacchus, and still so
purrnounced inSpain, etc. ) anyhow, no need to stir up bigots
by that part of hig'swork. Clearest head that ever wrote about money.
ALAS that so noble an ORA shd/ be led to mention so vile a worm
as Keynes WHEN positive RIGHT answers shd/ be our whole
occupation. Thanks for the extract and god damn the London school.
Peruvian in other day, rising to affirm correctness of DelM/

ALAS that so noble an ORA shd/ be led to mention so vile a worm
as Keynes WHEN positive RIGHT answers shd/ be our whole
occupation. Thanks for the extract and god damn the London school.
Peruvian in other day, rising to affirm correctness of DelM/
re/ S.America. Blinkin Bengals so right in making their
God of wealth live in cow-dung. ( how indelicate, but how holy)
Thanks for introd/ young R/ to the Pelo.
and don't let L.V. lie down on Ecrits de Par/ To think Frogland
or at least Paris shd/ return to be the interlexshin centre of
the foxident.
And the vile habit of americans never meetinf. DelM/ oh well,
mebbe he got to California before. yr/ pet Lub/
all intellectual hore sty inthe U.S. must hv/ been clandestine
from 19 1870 on.

benedictions

O.R.A.

Alexander Del Mar, b. I think. N.York 1836 . d. J.jersey 1926
author

History of Precious Metals

"" Monetary Systems

"" Money in ancient world

"" "" in Modern World etc.

"" "" Monetary Crimes ( Barbara Villiers )

Worship of Aug. Caesar

Middle Ages Revisited

Ancient Britain in Light of archaeolog. disc. etc.

solider than Brooks Adams. more detail, infact stupendous detail
follower of von Humboldt.

several points made ( from specific DATA , weight of g. and s. coins etc.

Antient History . racket on different gold and silver ratio
12 - 1, in Rome / 6, 7, 5¼ etc. to 1 in EHH India.

mohamedan coins in escandinavian countries / Moslem rate 8-1

Roman ratio lasting officially till fall of Constantinople 1204
after which Aristotle ( numisma , practically green back system)
banned in " Schools ".

Local control of SOME purchasing power.

Px. Max. had gold right, usurped by J.Caesar.
12 to 1 ratio, held till 1204.

local feudal silver coinage / copper " Senatus Consultu "
permitted Senate, and municipalities.

anyhow that key to what Mommsen , and Thorold Rogers did NOT
unlock.

Brooks Ad/ on Sammy Lloyd gets to equivalent racket.
CONTROLL of monetary issue, the lever of sovereignty.

all Ez. ever wrote backed up with THOROUGH detail arranged
systematically.

*** enough to explain 70 and 80 years silence.

BUT Alex. ALSO dug up about 16 li'l Cheezuses , all born ( virgins, escaping slaughter of innercents, using X in various forms , baptism, descent into hell etc. ALL complete from 2000 b.c. etc. mostly BLACK with wooly hair.

Cat/ ecclesia sliding into seats of
Caesars priests / faking of chronology to cover all this
from numismatics, dated, weighed, faked, etc.)

Clearest head that ever tacked problem of monetary issue.
can be discussed without Deus et Dominus Augustus, Domitianus
etc. if surrounded by demi-dummy-dermos.

Via Ciro Menotti, 36,
Rome, 19.XI.'50

Dear Ezra Pound:

The Studers came to see me last week and we had a good talk about you and all you stand for. The impression left on my mind was that of Socrates teaching in his prison. I remember seeing some years ago a very remarkable performance at the Eliseo Theatre in Rome given by Zacconi, then well over 80. He recited the Criton, nothing more nor less; the other characters were just those in the dialogue, and at the end the jailer brings in the hemlock and Socrates drinks it. The text was not curtailed to any extent; the audience was not a first night one, but just an ordinary Roman public, and it was held spellbound. The whole scene came vividly back to me, talking of you with the Studers. Ages go by, and men remain essentially the same; and as G.B.S. says in his Preface to St. Joan, the Socrateses and the Joan's of Arc are "paradoxised, in their defence, by the sense that somehow they are missing the point of the attack and have no suspicion of the extent to which their mental superiority has roused the fear, and hatred in the hearts of men towards whom they are conscious of nothing but good will and service."

I got the other day yours with the $20. Rosamaria and Malù received it with shouts of joy as meeting their Xmas needs. While on the subject of cheques, I am returning the one for $100 that Mrs. Pound so kindly sent me last summer. I have kept it by me in case of need and it has been a comfort to know that I had that little reserve for emergencies. Now I have just received from Scribner's of New York, 300 doll. for the sheets of Whitman's Leaves of Grass and Two Rivulets, with a few scribed notes on the margin and the directions in his own handwriting to the Printer, the whole sent to my Father when he was getting out an English edition, accompanied by two or three letters from W.W. thanking my Father for the remittance of an offering that his English admirers had got up for him at a time when his health was failing and his funds very low. It seems strange to think of the English getting up a subscription for an American poet; now it is all the other way round, and the Americans are showering gifts on the Europeans after the whole lot of them with F.D.R. at their head have done their best to wipe out Europe, when poets - English or American, - are at a discount, and the nations are "whoring after false gods" in idiosyncratic worship of the work of their own hands, their machines and high explosives.

How sick one gets of the platitudinarian generalities that the modern Statesmen indulge so freely in. Lubin's "as smoke to the eye and vinegar to the teeth are glittering generalities with no facts behind them" I found matched in the following by Blake that I came across the other day "To generalise is to be an idiot" followed by the gloze: "He who would do good to another must do it in minute particulars. General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer. For art and science cannot exist but in minutely organised particulars and not in the generalisation demonstrations of the rational power. The infinite alone resides in definite and determinate identity."

When I read H.T.'s address the other day to the FAO Conference in Washington in which he says that in the past masses of human beings have been under

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