It's A Big Thing To Call Yourself

In Italy, For The Same Price As A Typical British Hamburger Meal Including Sweet, A Builder's Labourer Could Eat Like A King - Rather Better In Fact, Because Pasta Dishes Gain From Being Kept Simple.

Pound Had Argued - And Eliot Had Helped Him Prove - That A Poem Could Be Sustained By Memorable Moments. Olson Proved That It Could Be Sustained By Unmemorable Ones, Provided That The Texture Of The Accumulated Jottings Avoided The Sound Of Failed Poetry.

Disco Dancing Is Just The Steady Thump Of A Giant Moron Knocking In An Endless Nail.

It Is Only When They Go Wrong That Machines Remind You How Powerful They Are.

In The Twelfth Century The Basque Fishermen Of Biarritz Used To Hunt Whales With Deadly Efficiency. When The Whales Sensibly Moved Away, The Basques Chased Them Further And Further, With The Consequence That The Fishermen Of Biarritz Discovered America Before Columbus Did. This Is A Matter For Local Pride But On A Larger View It Is Not Quite So Stunning, Since With The Possible Exception Of The Swiss Everybody Discovered America Before Columbus Did.