According to Ezra Pound, the Jews were the real parasites draining money from society.
When he was sent a letter asking him to assist in protecting a German-Jewish pianist being hounded by the Nazis, he replied:
GET down to USURY / the cause WHY western man vomits out the jew periodically / the JEW won’t take responsibility for civic order he WONT organize a state / he is a god damned Iriquois Indian / necessary defense against parasites / JEW parasite on principle / IF you are content to be sheep all right / but MAN declining to be GOY to jewish shearer will defend himself.
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I was content to be Tito’s sheep. I was content to be sheared by my Jewish usurer.
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Besides calling Jews “parasites,” Ezra Pound also referred to them as “oily,” “savage,” “indolent,” “filth,” “worms,” “lice,” “cankers,” “plagues,” “snakes,” “warts” and “syphilis.”
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In Canto XLV, published in 1936, Ezra Pound singled out the architecture of Pietro Lombardo as representing Good and usury as representing Eviclass="underline"
Pietro Lombardo / Came not by usura
In the broadcasts he recorded between 1941 and 1943 for Radio Roma, he singled out Benito Mussolini as representing Good and the Jews as representing Evil.
For Ezra Pound, usury was a Jewish plot to enslave the world — “Jewsury.” The “Hebraic monetary system,” according to him, was “a most tremendous instrument of usury,” and rather than a “war of the Jews against Europe,” it was, in fact, a “war of usury against humanity.” “When a nation dies,” argued Ezra Pound, “Jews multiply like bacilli in carrion.” That is why he recommended a purge of the Jews or a “pogrom UP AT THE top.”
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In the previous image: Ezra Pound walks along the Fondamenta delle Zattere in Venice.
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On 6 August 2009, I went for a walk with Tito along the Fondamenta delle Zattere.
On that trip to Venice, I had decided to give up our old apartment in the Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff.
In order to earn money for Tito — my Jewish usurer — I would have to stay in Rio de Janeiro forever, working as a journalist, and would never be able to come back and live permanently in Venice.
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When we reached the Fondamenta delle Zattere, I received a phone call from my lawyer, Romolo Bugaro.
He said: “3,012,761 euros!”
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Romolo Bugaro phoned me again a minute later to correct that figure: “3,162,761 euros!”
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After seven years, the case brought against Venice Hospital had finally reached a conclusion.
Tito had been awarded 3,162,761 euros.
On the way back from Fondamenta delle Zattere, Tito and I passed Calle Querini, where Ezra Pound had lived.
My parasite had ceased to be a parasite.
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In the previous image: the report in Il Gazzetino about Tito versus Venice Hospital.
Headline: “Child left quadriplegic receives millions in compensation.”
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Il Gazzetino reported that the civil court had ruled that the Hospital Santi Giovanni e Paolo should pay more than 3,000,000 euros in compensation to a child born in September 2000.
They also reported that the court had accepted all the arguments presented by the lawyer Romolo Bugaro, highlighting “improper conduct by the medical staff,” “an entirely unnecessary amniotomy” and “a delay in removing the fetus.”
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Antonio, William Shakespeare’s merchant, frees himself of his debt to Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, because he is represented in the Venice courts by Portia, a rich heiress disguised as a lawyer from Padua.
I freed myself from my debt to Tito because I was represented in the Venice courts by Romolo Bugaro, a novelist disguised as a lawyer from Padua.
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During the first ten years of his life, Tito cost me 3,497,916 eggs.
From that day on, he began to produce his own eggs, like Neil Young’s son on his farm.
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In the last volume of In Search of Lost Time, the Narrator is filled with a sense of happiness because the memory of his walks over the uneven paving stones of Venice renders him “unalarmed by the vicissitudes of the future” and indifferent to “the word ‘death.’ ”
On the walk back from the Fondamenta delle Zattere, after receiving Romolo Bugaro’s phone call, I too was filled with a sense of happiness. From one moment to the next, Tito’s future had ceased to depend upon me. I was free to die.
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In the previous image: Ezra Pound’s funeral in Venice.
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In 1945, Ezra Pound was arrested and charged with treason for his radio broadcasts about Jewish parasites.
After twelve years in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington, he was released and moved back to Venice, where he remained until his death.
I spent less time in Rio de Janeiro than Ezra Pound spent in St. Elizabeth’s.
After only eight years, I began to think about going back to Venice and remaining there until my death.
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Tito was fine in Rio de Janeiro. Nico was fine in Rio de Janeiro. Anna was fine in Rio de Janeiro. I was fine in Rio de Janeiro.
However, just as we always started counting from zero again whenever Tito stumbled and had to stop walking, Anna and I needed to go back to Venice and take up our lives where they had left off.
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I’m looking now at the photos of our last months in Rio de Janeiro.
Tito celebrating his birthday in a barbecue restaurant. Nico playing football at the Flamengo football school. Tito with his walker, following a carnival troupe. Nico spotting a whale from the window of our apartment. Tito on his way to school on his tricycle. Nico watching the removal of a corpse from the trunk of a car.
We were fine in Rio de Janeiro. We were ready to leave.
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In the previous image: Tito on his tricycle.
The tricycle was Tito’s fourth mode of transport.
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We disembarked in Venice on 4 August 2010.
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Mark Twain disembarked in Venice on 20 July 1867.
He wrote:
What a funny old city this Queen of the Adriatic is!