A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

It was a point of cultural orientation which never failed a cultural navigator in our time. Joyce, she tells us, in a sentence which should become famous, "had been discovered by Ezra Pound, a great showman and leader of a gang that hung out around the Egoist and included such suspicious characters as Richard Aldington, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and others almost as bad." She tells the story of how Hemingway read Wyndham Lewis' article about him in her shop: "Ernest Hemingway-'the Dumb Ox,' " and went berserk.
“The Personal Approach,” review of Shakespeare and Company, by Sylvia Beach, in Renascence, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1960, p 42
Year: 1960
Chapter: Pound, Ezra
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