[PEN-L:4034] Re: local money

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ezra Pound, Canto 84:

where it has got to        the state need not borrow
nor do the veterans need state guarantees
        for private usorious lending
        in fact that is the cat in the woodshed
            the state need not borrow
            as was shown by the mayor of Worgl
            who had a milk route
            and whose wife sold shirts and short breeches
and on whose book-shelf was the Life of Henry Ford
and also a copy of the Divina Commedia
            and of the Gedichte of Heine
            a nice little town in the Tyrol in a wide flat-lying valley
near Innsbruck and when a note of the
                    small town of Worgl went over
a counter in Innsbruck
            and the banker saw it go over
            all the slobs in Europe were terrified
            "no one" said the Frau Burgomeister
            "in this village who cd/ write a newspaper article.
            Knew it was money but pretended it was not
            in order to be on the safe side of the law."

Carrol

There still ain't no one can write as well as Pound, no
matter how loco his ideas.