Friday, April 28, 2023

 

Bunk

Ezra Pound, Polite Essays (1937; rpt. Freeport: Books for Libraries Press, Inc., 1966), p. 113:
The utter bunk offered by men in power, by 'experts and authorities', could only be offered to a grossly ignorant public, and a grossly timorous intelligentsia.
Id., p. 115:
Human nature? Yes, very human for any man to be irritated by the presentation of ANY fact whatsoever that upsets his preconceived notions. But until education welcomes any and every fact, it will remain what it now is, a farce.
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), "La Vérité est au fond du puits," Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon:

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 4:46 AM


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