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the aesthetics of the person who is about to do something. I was fear–
fullest you should hitch it up to Bergson or James or some philoso–
pher, and was relieved to find that Vorticism was not a philosophy.
I hope that your work is progressing satisfactorily. I probably
shall not be in town again until March. I hope that Yeats will still be
there. Please remember me to Mrs. Pound.
Sincerely yours Thomas S. )Eliot
I enclose one small verse. I know it is not good, but everything else I
have done is worse. Besides, I am constipated and have a cold on the
chest. Burn it.
SUPPRESSED COMPLEX
7
She lay very still in bed with stubborn eyes
Holding her breath lest she begin to think.
I was a shadow upright in the corner
Dancing joyously in the firelight.
She stirred in her sleep and clutched the blanket with
her fingers .
She was very pale and breathed hard .
When morning shook the long nasturtium creeper in the
tawny bowl
I passed joyously out through the window.
15 April [1915]
Dear Pound:
Merton College, Oxford
TS
Yale
I hope that my delay in returning the manifestoS has not incon–
venienced you. A number of criticisms have formed themselves in
my head and disintegrated again during the course of the week. I
think that a thing of the sort has to be written by one man, and can–
not be made up like an Appropriation Bill to please the congressman
from Louisiana and Dakotah. Doubtless the enlightened public will
see the work of your hands, and I trust that you will keep the same
order- i.e . an alphabetical taxis for all the names except your own.
7. [Leaf] 50, in black ink, Berg Notebook.
8. It was probably connected with Pound's 'Preliminary Announcement of the Col–
lege of Arts,'
Egoist,
1,21 (2
November
1914), 413-14,
which was reprinted as a
separate leaflet in the same month.
