Author: Mullins, Eustace [1923-2010]
Title: a 229-page typescript titled "Tales from the Shenandoah
Description: Weighs 1000 grams.. ¶ This is a collection of 229 typescript pages, many of which are typed originals, the remainder carbons, mainly unpaginated, all of which are fragments of various versions of an unpublished novel dealing with rural Virginia during the nascent civil rights movement authored by the anti- Semitic conspiracy theorist [ and Ezra Pound disciple] Eustace Mullins. Incomplete. This appears to comprise several probably incomplete different drafts of the first chapters, including an earlier version in which Ezra Pound [& James Joyce, Juan Gris, and Robert McAlmon] were invoked, to which Pound reportedly objected and Mullins later extensively revised. Mullins submitted a version of this novel to the publisher of his Pound biography, who declined. ["The steady hum that rose above the Left Bank of Paris, that October afternoon, came from the studio of Martha Curtis, Seated below a mural by Juan Gris, she was having acontinuing argument with Ezra Pound...'when I look at a Gris, I can't help but wonder is modern art is perhaps too modern, or at least too private. But if it is too private, then it is in opposition to the modern trend, which is all for the reduction of privacy, it is then reactionary and against the mass trend' - That's just it' said Ezra, 'modern art may be modern and sometimes it is private but it is not with the modern trend. it is not and will not be a mass art..."]

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