Convince me that this is good
It's a big fat meme and requires you to read everything that came before it and more
Now you listen here, The Cantos of Ezra Pound is good. It's good. And if you don't think so, everyone's gonna think you're a real dumbass. You want that? Didn't think so.
It is. Trust me.
>>7887700
ezra pound helped shape modernism
>>7887707
I only read so people will think I'm smart and hopefully overlook my mediocre intelligence and inability to form my own opinions
>>7887700
I've never read it, but usually when people call something "incomprehensible", or "gibberish" that's a good sign that it's actually worth reading.
>>7887700
Regardless of what you may think of Ezra Pound, The Cantos is among one of the most ambitious works ever put to paper, and, despite all the time that has passed, I don't think anyone has been able to fully understand it. Don't bother reading it if you can't get the guide: you won't get anything out of it. Here's my one of my favorite parts from it:
And past them, the criminal
lying in the blue lakes of acid,
The road between the two hills, upward
slowly,
The flames patterned in lacquer, crimen est actio,
The limbo of chopped ice and saw-dust,
And I bathed myself with acid to free myself
of the hell ticks,
Scales, fallen louse eggs.
Palux Laerna,
the lake of bodies, aqua morta,
of limbs fluid, and mingled, like fish heaped in a bin,
and here an arm upward, clutching a fragment of marble,
And the embryos, in flux,
new inflow, submerging,
Here an arm upward, trout, submerged by the eels;
and from the bank, the stiff herbage
the dry nobbled path, saw many known, and unknown,
for an instant;
submerging,
The face gone, generation.
>>7887763
The imagery in that passage alone convinced me to read it. I just don't like the thought of carrying two books and flipping back and forth every other sentence to figure out what the hell is going on.
>>7887783
Well, that's fine, but don't say I didn't warn you. On a side note, would you be interested in a group reading of The Cantos?
>>7887831
not him but i would be
>>7887831
because our Infintie Jest, Gravity's Rainbow, and Ulysses groups went so wellK E K
>>7887831
Yeah I would
>>7887831
I would also be interested. Been really enjoying Pound's Personae so far
>>7888413
>Inb4 semen cookies
>>7888418
so i googled that ... w-why is the cantos reading group going to lead to that?
>>7887700
Ezra Pound was right about everything. Dude predicted the collapse of the western world.
