Word: marginalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pound's marginalia, scribbled, indeed, with a stumpy pencil, mark the trail of an editor with a fine merciless eye for padding, preciosity or false prosody: "3 lines Too tum-pum at a stretch," one scribble reads. With the notation "1880," Pound skewered an anachronism in which Eliot called for "a closed carriage" in 1922; the carriage promptly became a "closed car at four." W.H. Auden once observed that Eliot was part church warden, part twelve-year-old boy. Pound was on the side of the boy. His objections to Eliot's frequent use of "may" and "perhaps...
READING Mailer and other writers with central visions of America, one questions their assertion that the country has a meaningful inner core, and one wonders whether it is not all chaotic egomania in which the sub-cults and the marginalia, the government and the governed, have been left to grow by themselves, to extend in any direction, restrained only by the dictates of inner logic. Tom Wolfe takes precisely this view as the underlying theme of his journalism. Mailer, however, bites at the poisoned artichoke with the unspoken premise that if the American psyche has been fragmented to this degree...
...fish, salad and fruit are served, Paul keeps up a lively chatter with his table companions, often including Papal Secretary of State Jean Cardinal Villot, who has a permanent apartment at the summer villa. After a 1½-hour siesta, there is more work: reading (and often writing marginalia in) the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, and planning or writing important documents. Like his predecessors, Paul works long hours. An hour or so for prayer in the evening, some minutes of symphonic music, a private walk in the garden, more work. Bedtime rarely comes before...