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Thursday, October 12, 2023
Dividing Line
Ezra Pound, Make It New (London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1939), p. 18:
This difference between what is known, and what is
merely faked or surmised has at all times seemed to me worth
discovering. Obviously the more limited the field the more
detailed can the demarcation become.