Haie Haie These were the swift to harry These the keen-scented These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men.
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And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.Ezra Pound
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
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But *you*, My Lord, how with your city?
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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