It's interesting conservative intellectuals still see T.S. Eliot as their role model ("The New Criterion"! LOL!) when it is obviously Wyndham Lewis (an unread prophet) who is their true precursor.
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my favourite biographical fact about Lewis was that he had an alter-ego called "the enemy", which entailed putting on a floppy hat and insulting his patrons.
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Pound ?
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We read Blast! in our Modernism class in high school and I got really into Ezra Pound for a hot second.
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I’ll always remember him for Hemingway’s insult about him having “the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist.”
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Jesus Hemingway should have been arrested for murder
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Wyndham Lewis was a straight-up fascist
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Eliot basically trashed his reputation in his day by championing Ezra Pound, whose support for Mussolini was not looked upon kindly by the U.S. government as I recall.
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It sota has to be “snivelling wannabe Tory nostalgist” doesn’t it, as he was born in Missouri, to his eternal shame.
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