> "[Pound] was a marvelous critic because he didn't try to turn you into an imitation of himself. He tried to see what you were trying to do."
makes it sound like a damned shame Pound went down the conspiracy-theory rabbit hole.
(I am adding "able to put oneself in the shoes of others" as yet another thing which I can no longer regard as an infallible bulwark against totalitarianism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199995 )
makes it sound like a damned shame Pound went down the conspiracy-theory rabbit hole.
(I am adding "able to put oneself in the shoes of others" as yet another thing which I can no longer regard as an infallible bulwark against totalitarianism. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199995 )