kek it do be like that

Pound was a performative man.

>>25326397
As someone who reads in public a lot and quite enjoys Ezra Pound, if I saw someone reading The Cantos in public I would for sure roll my eyes and cropdust as I passed by.

"Cantos" is a hilariously overused term

how so? wouldn't normies/foids think you're a fascist chud for reading him?

I will only try and seriously tackle this for historical reasons but just reading the first canto has my eyes in the back of my head.

>>25326397
I'd like to Pound Ezra's Cantos if you know what I mean

>>25326397
You have a lot of pounds on youself

>>25326445
You couldn't fart on command if you tried, despite your wearying BMI.

>>25326397
>Let's name our boy Arze Dnuop
>No, dear, that sounds like "arse" and nonsense
>What about Ezra Pound?
>Perfect.

>>25327605
Seek psychiatric help. Immediately.

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>>25327612
No.

>>25326397
Lay down the pounds, fatty

>>25326397
If you read Pound, the arthoes gon' let you pound. If you read St. Augustine, arthoes gon' call HR or somethin'. If you read Blake, arthoes gon' do a double-take. If you read Milton, an arthoe will pause her Alex Chilton. If you read Marx, she might take down: 'Give this boy extra marks!' If you read Thomas Sowell, she'll defy you by selling her soul. If you read Tolstoy, she'll defy you by dancing on a pole at night. If you read Dostoevsky, she'll think you're deep and give you something to remember she.

>>25328051
Nabokov, she'll hobnob on the knob?

>>25326397
>The performative reader’s final boss
It's a very dense read that requires you to be already broadly read before you get anything out of it, so I would say it's the opposite of performative reading.

>>25328181
you're assuming its readers are understanding it

>>25326397
Performative readers exclusively stick to the safe canon of classics, so they aren't going to read a fucking out and proud fascist like Pound.

>>25328051
If you read Shakespeare, the arthoe will reveal her spear.

>>25328051
if you read Joyce she'll think you're one of the boyce

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>>25328181
>It's a very dense read that requires you to be already broadly read before you get anything out of it

>>25328051

LIT-GAME 101

If she catches you reading Ezra Pound
The art-hoe’ll let you stroke her mound.

If you smile while perusing Emily D
She’ll invite you home for a coffee or three.

If you walk round campus with Saint Augustine
It’s art-hoe crust you’ll soon be bustin’.

If you quote from ‘Autumn’ by little John Keats
She’ll offer you employment between her sheets.

If she spots you with ‘Slouching’ by Mrs Joan Didion
She’ll follow you from Fiji to the Greenwich Meridian.

If you take your coffee with a chapter of Cervantes
You’ll soon be familiar with her taste in panties.

If you ask in a bookshop for Wallace Stevens
The odds of a threesome are better than evens.

If you whisper in her ear from Dostoevsky
She’ll squeal so loudly she’ll turn you deafski.

If you sit in a café with the works of Chaucer
There’s nothing so lewd that you’ll have to force her.

If you tell her you’re RE-reading Marcel Proust
She’s already three-quarters to being seduced.

If she finds on your bookshelf a well-thumbed Milton
She’ll book you a room in her private Hilton.

If she sees you with ‘Ada’ by Vladimir N
She’ll want to be signed with your big pink pen.

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>>25328853
very nice

>>25326445
only okay if you're attractive

>>25326397
Also how the fuck does bro make his poetry about economics or whatever? Did he know anything about economics

>>25328276
Inasmuch as we‘re only judging a handful of lines from presumably much larger works in either case you are severely out of your depth if you can‘t detect the much, much stronger cadence in the second example.