I can't find it right now, but there's a letter from McLuhan to Pound complaining about the influence of secret societies and occult practices on the work and forms of the Modernists.
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Maybe of interest. Tony Tremblay, THE LITERARY OCCULT IN THE LETTERS OF MARSHALL McLUHAN AND EZRA POUND, Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Vol. 27, No. 2/3 (Fall & Winter 1998), pp. 107-127.pic.twitter.com/OLwgUjz4FB
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Thanks. The writer, alas, shouldn't have missed that obituary by Kenner, which was hardly hidden in some obscure source. His condescension is unearned.
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Are you thinking of the passage in Dublin's Joyce where HK mentions SD's "signatures of all things I am here to read," in a parenthetical comment, where HK says we don't need to refer to "esoteric Buddhism" to make sense of it?
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Yes -- I always read that as a subvocal response to McLuhan (there are a few such comments in Kenner's work. He never really stopped thinking about MM).
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