Pound made his diachronic and intercultural world
Even though others had been breaking ground, I had a longer backward reach. After all, I had had a quarter of a century novitiate.
The influence process for radical art is always an uphill struggle: works begin as an esoteric idiolect—symbols and ideas spoken and understood by a single person.
To create within the framework of someone else’s stereotype makes the creator an epigone, and their work is mere “taste.”
Most subcultural and countercultural innovation thus begins as bricolage—the mixing and matching of preexisting styles and objects to imbue them with new meanings.
