Bertie and Trips

[Vaska Tumir]

Steely, breaking the sound barrier:

[a big snip on TRP and Russell -- thanks for the Mimi F. reference]
> And we shan't even mention the mystical mister Whitehead.

We'd better not, I guess.  Talk about a misogynist.  

>"Are you visiting women? Do not forget your whip!"
>Nietzsche, Of Old and Young Women.

>From the Zarathustra volume? Nietzsche, the poor mother- and
sister-tormented  Nietzsche: only to have his soul shattered that day in
Bologna [?] when, seeing a horse mercilessly whipped by its demented owner,
he, never and in his case understably so, able to empathize with a woman,
"became" the mindless brute sufferer.  I know, I know: the preferred
explanation is the mind-rotting effects of the syphilis he's supposed to
have picked up from a prostitute.  Pound, at least, was more or less saved
by the women's eyes he hallucinated in that cage the US army put him in, and
later, more importantly, by his admission in the Cantos, first in French
[that hard it was to say it], and then, much later, in English -- the one
about compassion and not being able to make it flow through. Remember,
Steely?  "La misere du Monde," as Bourdieu would say and has.