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14 Oct 57 Bughouse

Dear "averick You remind me of a poster that used to adorn the
pisseurs of Paris/ it represented a man with his skin lifted at
various points showing discolorations, connected by lines with
words printed in the margin and labled THE 47 venereal diseases of
man ".

with the comforting addendum: No one may have all these
& diseases at once, but it is possible than an individual may
have several. "

I am not disputing the utility of banks; of credit; of indices. But
am disappointed that you think me so weak in the head as to be distracted
from discussion of ONE particular point by mere evasiveness
and mentioning several others while not facing the one mentioned.

From the beginning of time, I take it that peasants, as in St Ambrogio
have met in hill cranns and decided on THEIR price of offer in
the town or village market below.

That ability to guess NEED was known in the Time of Thales / etc.

I am talking of what the TV commentators AH either dare not or do
not dare to discuss.

The paying rent on the nations own credit to
a set of private and irresponsible individuals.

current item from young correspondent.

"After asking if I thought the Fed. Res. was bad, the psychiatrist here decided to give me a combination of insulin and electric shock treatments."

There were in earlier letters quotes from the boys
banker father showing considerable contempt for public welfare.
Other hoping to be sent to a european rather than U.S. bughouse .
since frustrated.

the one on

Rouvere's other book on the "edici went on from where I left off
in earlier Cantos. and supplied one bright item / i/e/ that
the Medici went bust when they accepted more deposits than they
cd/ use in legit. commerce, and started making loans to
princes" (as for space ships and conveyance to lunar areas, to
which they are unlikely to send the worst s.o.b.)

Lubin, working for fixed farm prices, neglected to say ( probably
to consider) that they cd/ be " FIXED" in an unstable medium
controlled by the enemies of mankind.

The influence of Viena has pejorated the
language of the army / i.e. its routine profanity is at lower
level of obscenity than that current when we were younger.

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Mooncalf "ellen's Bubblegum refused my Confucian Odes/
Harvard sabotages their production /

all of which has no direct
bearing on my queeries to you re/ stamp scrip. Or even green backs.
Have yu read Andrew D. White's Autobiography. He disliked paper,
but gave specific reasons, that is being a bunker's son, he
mentioned particular and rather trivial cases of abuse. Not a patch
on Renton.

as to CONTROL / the filth of Roosevelt, Perkins, Dexter White and their
cronies/ was for tyranny wherever possible . and more work
( needless) to prevent leisure and thought.

1 shd/ favour giving ADVICE to farmer re/ probabilities of future XREIA /
but not hiring bugrocrats and importing russian
kiketrists to PREVENT (federal troops or other) a man raising
2 pigs when he wished to risk doing so.

For 30 years correspondents have been sliding away from the question
of monetary ISSUE by the old disc : oh its not the WHOLE problem.

And in 30 or more years often hurried writing I do NOT think you can
find a single line or clause where I ever even vaguely suggested it
was the WHOLE problem.

anzi/ I have frequently stated with maximum
clarity that it is NOT. and that with a perfect monetary system
given

the shyster after 3 minutes, wd/ start thinking up some means
of cheating the aboriginees their simple concitoyens, let alone
the aboriginees of " less favoured countries"

actively yrs

23 0c

EHHH L.M.

YEPP

And Gullart tells of the mess made among the Na Khi,
and Beauson Tseng has resigned from being head of Tung Hai Univ.
Formosa

preZOOMably cause the " mission board " is etc.
And Williams has printed " Utopia"
AND I am in jug after 9 years physical lethargy
CONDITION and yu got a heart

And Williams 75 cents/
" The uUltimate WOrld Order "
P.O. box 868 Slata Ana, Calif
aint made fer them wiff heart CONDotions.

AND the ♂ Czarist national anthem wuz
" Give to us peace, in our time,
OH LORD. "

but I ain' heerd it fer nigh onto 40 years , and the Xters sing
shall eye be kerried to th' sky's
etc.
while others etc. and toil thru

BBHULU
uddy

SEAS.

in fact the ferocity of their song books is a lulu.

yrz

E.P.

«review copy Kuan Tzu probably not sent to National Review (Buckley) cause it warn't WHEN.

address 211 East 37 th St. New York 16 N.Y.

did I alZo say/ R.McNair H Wilson
Ironshill Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton
England?

yu ever READ him ?

20 Jan

Nat/ «ev. is improving gently

did the American «mercury get one ?????

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27 Feb 58

Dear L.M.

pas de bile. Can I purrsuade you to look at
McNair Wilson's " Mind of Napoleon " / so as to keep things
impersonal. start at p.104 as indication of what simple souls
hoped for in 1934, before ole commodity " Warren" died off
and ....

McN. W. never a bore/ but nuts on Xtianity etc. You cd/
correspond with him to advantage, re/ what he has learned during
the past 23 years.

yrz

25 Marzo 58

EZRA POUND

L.M.

Want me to lend it to you ? quite likely it
(Mind of Nap) won't be in lieBury . McN. W. as you say, has
wrut q.a lot. line of scotch parsons , went gay
and became medical edtr/ London Times.
First blood " The Promise to Pay ".

I had forgotten WHAT
his pussyDonym was. Good deceptive story : Murder in
the Town Hall. ( re local administration )

LOAThsome account of the world's prime bitch
Mrs de Stael . charming on other figures of the
period.

VERY Xtian. I think I once had 36 pages in
long hand on Xtn. Monarchy. Not the Sam Adams type.

Of course Times kept him strictly to medicine
never let onto financial pages, so far as known.

excellently clear letter by Eric de Maré, managed
to get into Manchester Guardian. 14 th inst.
I think E d M. wd. review Kuan Tzu if you are
still chucking review copies about.

3. Stanley Crescent, London W. 11.

( I dont think I have ever written to him, but have
been seeing his name.

C.Clemens appeared to open his mind at name of Benton,
whom I take it he had never READ, tho( later
informant digs , that) Tom Sawyer HAD heard of B/

campa cavallo , and
watch for a few double XXXXXXXX s.
no, not from C.C. just watch

a young friend drags in a copy of "Mad"
has THAT entered yr PAIdeauma ?

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Vanni Scheiwiller 6 via Melzi d' Eril, Milano
Merchant, in Yale Literary Magazine. Dec 57, or approx.

ANA etc.' you have ( M. Oberto, 32 via Montallegro a 43
Cultura nel Mondo , Leo Magnino

via Monte Pariolo 40. Roma
Rev
Moelwyn Merchant 15 Archer Rd. Pemarth, Glamorgan, Wales
England
E. Mullins, ap 2 B.

2239 Lincoln Av. Chicago.
( Federal Reserve )
Il Caffe , via della Croce 60. Roma

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