O Crackpot Ezra Pound e Mussolini

Ezra Pound era um dick. Certa feita foi visitar Mussolini: Pound also spoke of his Chinese studies and about the Confucian concept that in order to arrive at correct definitions and clarify one’s ideas, it is necessary to “put order into words.” Mussolini did not really understand what Pound was saying and asked him: “Why do you wish to put order in your ideas?” a reply that Pound found acute and genial.

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