The Thirty-Fifth Canto‘s first line ends with the wonderfully evocative and now word, Mitteleuropa.

There’s a lot going on here. The psychic wounds of the First World War. Sexual desire, which, as I have commented on before, does not usually figure prominently in Pound, appears here in conversation:

Mr Elias said to me:
                   ” How do you get inspiration?
” Now my friend Hall Caine told me he came on a case
” a very sad case of a girl in the East End of London
” and it gave him an i n s p i r a t i o n . The only
” way I get inspiration is occasionally from a girl, I
” mean sometimes sitting in a restaurant and
                   looking at a pretty girl I
” get an i-de-a, I-mean-a biz-nis i-de-a? “
                 dixit sic felix Elias?