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222 THIS DIFFICULT INDIVIDUAL
mean the line of futurist propaganda is an idea, the painting an
adjunct. An adjunct that proves the idea has other dimensions
that are merely ideologies. It is a good idea, it is not a whole
idea. But it needs plastic expression. It has imperfect plastic
expression which is a dawn of its force, but it does not arise
from a plastic need.
"Health is cruel, or rather health is often accompanied by what
seems cruelty to the bacillus. A man who is totally healthy don't
worry about bacilli. Yet he is perpetually surrounded by patent
medicine bottles and disinfectants. But, for God's sake, look at
your art! When art is subordinate to the picture dealer, the museum
in the United States gets what is left after the European connoisseur
has taken the pick of it.
"Ezra Pound speaking. I know I haven't got very far in this
talk, so wait for the next. Health, damnit! Think about that in
the interim. Pound speaking."
In "Darkness", a broadcast on July 13, 1942, Pound suggested
putting Congress on the air, so that the people would know what
they were up to. This was one of his favorite themes during the
years he was imprisoned in St. Elizabeths Hospital. He has also
plugged for the sale of the Congressional Record on newsstands,
and suggested that each tourist visiting the halls of government
in Washington be given a copy as a souvenir, in the hope that he
might read it. He continued in this vein,
"I'm telling you, I'm just telling you, as Jimmy Whistler said
to the painter Chase, I say I'm not arguing, I'm just telling you.
You can keep your Constitution, most of the sailors and landlubbers
no longer care. But as a technicality, if no more than that,
I'm telling you, a lot of folks want to bust it, so as to fish in the
troubled waters. Lots of folks want to keep it rusty and inefficient
so's it won't interfere in their various rackets. I'm telling you how
to oil up the machine and change a few gadgets, so it will work
as the founders intended."
July 26, 1942. Axis Propaganda:
In this broadcast, in order to illustrate the type of Axis propaganda
that he used, Pound gave the following quotes: