In the Thirty-Fourth Canto, inside of a triangle:

“CITY
OF
ARRARAT
FOUNDED BY
MORDECAI NOAH”

And just below that:

These words I read on a pyramid, written
in English and Hebrew.

And before that, even, this throwaway remark:

Mr Noah has a project for colonizing jews in this country
And wd. like a job in Vienna….

The Canto, with early allusions and references to Napoleon and Russian campaign, mostly consists of fragments by and about the generation of American statesmen that followed the Revolutionary Era – John C. Calhoun, Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams (it wasn’t clear if “Quincey” in the Thirty-Third Canto was truly him, but here we see the abbreviation J.Q.A.)

Am I letting the doubts inspired by Kenneth Rexroth’s remarks overwhelm my ability to appreciate one of the great and epic works of High Modernism?