HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT...
YOU WOKE IN THE MORNING TRUSSED}
IN STRAW, FOR YOU WERE TO BE BURNED AT THE STAKE
-THIS DREAM · MEANS :
This is a dream of depression, plus guilt. That you fool "rather bitter about it all" indicates the depression. This is caused by a sense of guilt pretty deep down in your sub- conscious mind; and with that sense of guilt is the feeling that it must be expiated; as symbolised by your boing trussed in straw so that you may be burned at the stake. Fire is symbolically the great cleanser of impurity and sin and guilt,
Depression plus guilt is commonly caused by a fierce hatred of someone which cannot find
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tise a similar lamp directly multiple lights, anyone starting front of the subject but two feet flood-light photography probably faster away. This should be is wise to begin by using aimed so that the shadows on single lump for his pictures. A the subject's face
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AND THEN YOU PUT ON A DRESSING GOWN) AND WENT OUT AND ABOUT, BUT YOU WERE KATHER BITTER ABOUT IT ALL?
on outlet; and which, therefore, becomes dammed up and ultimately directed inwards against yourself."
Depression of this sort is a sort of self- hatred; note the common enough phrase, "How he must hate himself.”
It would be as woll for you to analyse the resentments of the day provious. If there is anyone you should tell' off, tall him off rather than bottle it up.
But for the most part it is better if you can admit your hatred and aggres- sion, try to harness it to some constructive, holpful piece of work, and stop feeling the martyr.
EZRA POUND
JUNE 9, 1951.
In the evening of their careers they captivate
partnership with John Gilpin. Anita Lands in the flances in lively ballet by the Mar- kova-Dolin company.
LONDON, May 31. WO outstanding foreign artists of ballet and opera, now in the evening of their careers,
In the second act of "Swan have been capturing the Lake" Danfiova's beauty of line imagination and
and regatry provided unforget earning the plaudits of London au- her curtain the applause was diences.
table moments. When she took
so prolonged that she did a rate
The performance of "Beau thing for a ballet dancer-made Danube"
called up nostalgic a short speech. recollections at the Stoll Theatre,
more particularly because the guest artist, Danilova, hud graced the role of the street-dancer with Massine himself (in past days) as the Hussar
Despite the lapse of Danilova proved herself capable years of bringing a bewitching quality to her dancing. this time in
Mr. Pound has kink about £ s. d.
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THE LETTERS OF EZRA POUND. kẻ, D. D. Paige. Faber. 251. 464 pages. The AUC OF READING. By Exca Pound, Faber.
8t. 6d. 206 pages.
PATROL of Allied soldiers moving cautiously forward in North Italy (19-15) made an interesting literary find. He was a shabby man of 63 with a (once red) beard, speaking English with traces of an Idaho accent. He was a crank
about economies, and the leading American noet of his line. His name Was Ezra
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❤ Being
author of Wooden Horse, Eric Williams need no other notice of THE 1 the penultimate TUNNEL (Collins, 103. Od.), in stage of his spiritual which he takes the reader to a pilgrimage, he bod different prison
camp from broadcast propaganda Stalag Luft III., and to an at- tempted escape
for Mussolini (at 17s. with less Bd.
time). The outcome. Narrative ultimate stage
-St Eliza- beth's Montal
Home. Washington, DC. which
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a
happy power as before.
Just after her 17th birth. duy. Chure Simon, Koinan Catholic girl. began to
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marries, If Clare Parishioner.
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Charles · Morgan gets grips with problem of spiritual world. Ensuing mental strug frezdom in
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Contented Cow Is A Fallacy
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to
treason being inde- finitely postponed.
10
called him
T Covent Garden
another great artist, Kirsten Flagstad, who made her debut in opera last season. in 1913, 13 singing Isolde la her
The
Norwegian lends
dignity and soprano magnificence to the role, but the years are also felling on Set Together, Svanholm's Tristan. however, they achieved an admirable love-duet to the lyrical accompaṇiment
of the orchestra, under Clemens Straurs.
This autumn Madame Flagstad will be adding one more to her
memories professional
which
"a Boche, a bun-over the years have linked her gler and a blasphemer."
with the Metropolitan in New In dur course, Pound fell York and Milan's Scala, to the victim to the Douglas Credit Paris Scheme, and brzame at once,State: Ike
Opera and the
Berlin
St
In September she will 411 fellow-sufferers, an ex- appear at The Mermaid, pert on money currency, usury. John's Wood, which is not really barks, etc. "The only thing
a theatre at all but a converted bettreen food and the starving schoolroom, known to the stage is a thin barrier of utterly couple Bernard Miles damned stupidity re the print-Josephine Wilson as "the barn." ing of metal dlack or stripa.
paper
And
0
Chaucer is seen watching the rome modern ort, It is wiser to departure of pilgrims from have been initiated at Battersen Southwark's Tabard inn; 17th Park or to come on it, unawares century 1lbertines dance across as it were, straight from the transept: Mr and Samuel romantic film
gangster Pepys' appear to a background thriller. There la one console of flames of the Fire of London, tion: cinema fans are generally Weigall); and a choirboy's per- started by
(Al ready for anything. fect solo helps Christopher le Fleming's musle to catch the spirit of religious art.
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madman
Commissioned by the Arts Council, the play is produced by Miss Doreen Woodcock,
By RONALD ROPER
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IT'S quite an idea for a film comedy to let a wealthy old practical Joker (Hugh Grimth) provide for "Laughter Paradise" by leaving £50,000 each to four assorted legaters, subject to their performing certain whimsically selected tasks.
An ogress of a spinster (Fay Compton) is "sentenced" to a
has been done before. surely); George Cole, spineless bank clerk, can only win & a fortune by holding up the boss with a water-pistol; and
While the Publie Morality month in the service of a tyran- Council, concerned.
nleal hypochondriac; a play-boy About "definite deterioration" in the
gambler (Guy Mickleton) has to character of stage entertainment, marry the first girl he meets hints at the
(this Getting up possible of an international non-govern mental organisation to combat Immoral literature and Alms, the
resident Contemporary Art, Mr Herbert Head, is demonstrating that the cimema can play its part in widening public, understanding and appreciation of the arts.
of the Institute of
to
thriller writer ex-army officer (Alastair Sim), In many ways the pick of the bunch, must land himself in prison.
are
This is an Ealing film in the theatres, has been opened by bus tradition of British flm fun. As it also represents the first big of Italian director Marlo Zampi, who made French without Tears and had. just completed Freedom Radio when war came and we had to put him in an internment camp. Fortunately that hasn't dampen- ed his sense of humour.
Also in the stimulating story In line with the recent sug-
old bands like Ernest gestion of a leading film critic, Thesiger and A. E. Matthews The institute accepted an invita- and promising newcomers like tion by Warner's to introduce Audrey Hepbum and Veronica pleture galleries cinema Hurst.
The first of these CX+ hibitions, in the foyers of two
Miss Constance Cummings. Mr Read puts it, "The elnema is postwar triumph The singer is not only fuinu. A letter to Geoffrey Crowther ing u promise to sing there in
en ideal place for the public to (editor. The Economist) on the 20 performances of Purcell's
compare the ropresentational and querlion of money opens thus "Dido and Acneas. A9
abstract forms of visual art." emotionally: "I take it you are gesture to the Mermald venture a damned lar."
she is both giving her services After 1925 he llved at and finding time between re- Repalle, Italy, where he dehearsals to help paint "the veloped an intense admiration barn," for Mussolini (the anti-usurer) and, in due course, for Hitler who, in his opinion (expressed after capture by the Allies), could only be Joan of Arc.
compared
to
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NOBODY can complain that From the correspondence of Mrs K. Baxter has not
this brilliant,
the
the
is
wrong-headed striven boldly to answer American there emerges, among charge of dullness which
scurrillly, abuse, en-sometimes levelled with reason
thusiasm and against religious productions.
by GEORGE
MALCOLM
THOMSON
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"Your Trumpets, Angels" is not a Hollywood title but the portrait of man of un- name of a morality play being usually seitve presented in Southwark Cathe- kindness. dral. "It is possible," says a "Anybody must
crlile, that in ages to come this Festival year of 1951 will be especially remembered for 1 renascence of the morality play In its proper setting, the church." And here is. Ezra feeding the stray cats of literature- GLM
Blend of masque and play. helping some little mugazine. "Your Trumpets, Angels" has not cliscovering Joyce, advising only depth of theme-the pro- Lascelles Abercromble .on gress of love-but spectacular, translating Dante, and raising a fund (called "Bel Esprit") tous beauty
even gruesome, appeal as well of scene and some Save young T. S. Ellot from exquisite singlug. Lloyds Bank where, for £500 n year, he is ruining health and stifling poetry.
There he is affable host to like Ezı," said Yeats," "who favoured callors
discussing has seen him feeding the stray literature and
personalities: cats at Rapallo." "If you want me to talk about Yeats,
must pive twenty-four hours' notice, the top layer of my mind 15 none."
With the remaining layers. Pound since the incarceration has won the 1,000 dollar Bol- lingen Prize for best American
General Election in 1945: puotry-His postwar -verse-in- cludes lines оп the British
"Oh, to be in England now that
Winston's out,
Now that there's ToOIN
doubt.
for
And the Bank may be the
nution's."
Until then the most famous poem written in any asylum was Christopher Smart's Song to David (1703),
money
The
Was raised (£300), Had it not been s Eliot might now be a peer and Governor of the Bank of Eng- land ("may be the nation's") instead of O. M. and author of Four Quaricts.
INSIDE
RUSSIA has agreed to
Soulpture is also on view, I have no space to debate whether, as a prelude to appreciation of
"Rabear
STORY WITHOUT WORDS
EDITÓNU PAKIS'SIRDĪTE, DE
INFORMATION
By MERCURY
226
Agitation has started in Ice-
withdrawal of the, American garrison. A delegation of Iceland Communists has just returned from Moscow.
There will be no early with presidential election In Portugal; land for provide China
Premier Salazar will military
act as 1,500,000 men.
equipment for
president.
All this is not to say that his attitude to Eliot's work is one of undeviating admiration. This from a letter in the pri vate "American" dialect Pound's more playful mood:
"Waal, I heard the Murder in the Cafclrawl on the radio Inss night. Oh, them Cawkney Russian military movements woices, them Cawkney wolces! have been noticed in the Berlin Mzzr Shakzpeer still retains his Strait. Reinforcements porishun. I stuck it fer a while, been
have sent to Great Diomede
Britain is negotiating abroad Twenty of
που Russian sub for
warships, Home cannot accept some marines have already trans- shipyards ferred to the Chinese flag.
orders for the Royal Navy.
wot
WHIT the weepin and Island, opposite Alaska.
wailin."
•
The deputy chief of the Com- munist Tudeh party has returned to Persia after three months in
Moscow.
The Communist Party will oppose all right-wing Socialists at the next British Ceneral Election.
General Eisenhower, in a pep
How did Pound come to broadcast for the Italian foe and to get into that asylum? By Frederick Cook The reader of these 384 Pound letters (33 years of correspon- New York. dence) wil search them in WHY do some cows look vain for signs of progressive
monial trouble. He will round with that evil evidence of a rich,
And garserous, glint in their eyes just as eccentric and enntankerous the milk reaches the top of personality, with a bee in his the pail and send the whole bonnet about money,
There is also in this collee- Malik is still expected to thing
Pound was not only a post. flying with one but a
friend and finder
tion plenty of serious, vigorous present a Soviet pesce plan for of- mighty kick?
poels. He
wing on "culchur" and other Korea when he becomes chair- brought all his
subjects, and an assortment of man of the U. N. Security the Because, say American scien-seriousness and energy to
business of
extravagant prejudices. Pound's Council next month. literature. When idols: tlfe researchers, they are psy he went to Ilve in
Yeats, Joyce, chologically maladjusted, bitter (1011), he wore a light blue dy, Ellot. Dislikes: Keynes (" towards Hfe in general, neurotic frock coat with square emerald Wells ("slew"), Colvin ("the oll cld, the largest potential Plans are being pushed ahead Louse"), Show
fake), for the development of Kuwait -in short, uncommonly like a green buttons. It was a mis back devil'). good many human beings. feading costume,
feld in the Middle East. Half-guide to Uteraturé, half- There is, in fact, the experts
Pound had the essential
anthology, Pound's ABC of Air survey teams have left soy, no such thing as a
educated, in con- gravity of tented cow.
Reading, Lasued after 10 years Britain to survey the site for Pennsylvania, and the sally speech of the Yankee! "Every
elle from peint, presents a a great new ofl
General Sir Brian Robertson, city.
• There
provocative version of the pro-
C-in-C. Middle East, has held vigorous man should have a home a
SU
gress of poetry. Dieła:
Bad
America will put an economic secret talks with class-wur going on unsuspected that he may be exempt from
the South by farmers in most herds.
on Indonesia what poetry is the same in all Inn squeeze any outalde interference
unless African Defence Ministry, rubber exports guages"; "Literature
to China are 50 damn ever." And there
"England's national sport is
that stays nows."*
stopped. classes among cows just as the chase of the red herring."
(World Comprione Reservad England hit back. Chesterton London Express Service.)
is
even
criminal arc
there are among people.
Two American universities huve come to these conclusiona after years of study, aimed, at determining if cow psychology affects milk output.
HERD QUEEN
Veterinary surgeons at: Ohio University school of agricultura, say that overy herd has a "queen Cow and that keen competition for higher social standing causes the unsuccessful ones, to become malad- Justed
thoroughly embittered, maar
red and obsessed
secution
mania.
A serious loss of milk follows. At Minnesota University, studies show that buman lations with cows should always be on the kindliestplane and that cows respond to a friendly voice and a caress to a fer great er extent than is supposeda
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The U. S. is withholding full military aid from Spain because It is still a one-party state.
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lend
Denmark three destroyers If the
Britain has offered to Danish navy can find personnel
to man them.
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Italy may receive an order for 47 destroyers for the Royal Navy and allies.
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But Italy wants a guarantee
talk to Danish generals, has of raw materials before accept- asked them to keep close con- ing such orders. tact with their troops.
British and American oil ex perts have been invited by Israel to survey all deposits found on
the Gulf of Aqaba.
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He is preparing for the Middlo East conference at Malta in June. South Africa will play a leading role,
By Frank Robbins
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rationing of nicel supplies to An announcement on the British industry is expected soon. Priorities will be given to de- fence production.
France has refused to accept an American anti-tank bazooka as a standerd weapon and will adopt a French model.
America is urging Britain to increase the copper output of Rhodesia.
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