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"To begin, four old voices (Odysseus, Elpenor, Tiresias, and Divus) under an old providence (Circe) will become four renewed voices (Odysseus, Elpenor, Tiresias, and Pound) under a new Providence (Aphrodite). The transformation will be brought about by ten narrated events in the fourfold form ONE.--Forrest Read, 76: One world and the Cantos of Ezra Pound.

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toc =TETRAD.= //Fourier Transform Of Fours//

"History, nature, cosmic order (the source of justice), and the gods presiding over human arts square with the four themes of all Pound's arcana, both in The Cantos and out. The four belts moving around the Room of the months, analogous to the Seal symbols and voices articulated by the concurrent documents, in effect build the four-fiered frescoes and thence, figuratively, the new building. The 'something similar' Pound had done is the Calendar derived from the tiered Seal.--Forrest Read, 76: One world and the Cantos of Ezra Pound."

Marshall McLuhan pioneered a method of media analysis called the [|tetrad of media effects]. I propose that this method be used as a continuous revision and updating tool by which to evaluate, where possible, the five groupings for the revised tale of the tribe. (Theos, Tailaws, Texets, Tea-chings, Ttottems) although the method works best on the 30 teachings, or principles, I have found.

Ezra Pound also employed a four phase tetrad of media effects, in some sense, throughout his Cantos. Possibly identified with quarters of tradition, Personality, Justice, poetry, as phases by which to evaluate and communicate the tale. Other examples can be found in Tim Leary's works on 8 dimensional circuits, the I-Ching, and the in genetic code (four base amino acids). Please see RAWs book coincidance' for hundreds more Tetrads of interest, such as Carl Jung's four psychological functions: sensation, intuition, thinking and feeling, and the four suits: hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades.

I propose that Ezra Pound intended 120 cantos, divided, among other models as four quarters consisting of groups of thirty cantos, a system probably inspired by Bruno, Vico, and Yeats, and his own genius. The four groupings of 30 cantos can be shown to reflect McLuhans Tetrad on many levels, and also some of Leary's transpersonal analysis, though Pound's direct treatment of personae and conditions in history. Forrest read writes of Pound's four phase arcana: tradition, personality, justice and poetry (Tradition, Typeface, Trial, Tale).

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McLuhan's [|Tetrad of media effects] can be used as a tool for media analysis when looking into the tale of the tribe.


 * 1) [|What does the medium enhance?]
 * 2) [|What does the medium make obsolete?]
 * 3) [|What does the medium retrieve that had been obsolesced earlier?]
 * 4) [|What does the medium flip into when pushed to extremes.]



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From wikipedia.

[|//War and Peace in the Global Village// (1968)]
McLuhan used [|James Joyce]'s //[|Finnegans Wake]// as a major inspiration for this study of war throughout history as an indicator as to how war may be conducted in the future.

Joyce's //Wake// is claimed to be a gigantic cryptogram which reveals a cyclic pattern for the whole history of man through its **Ten Thunders**. Each "thunder" below is a 100-character portmanteau of other words to create a statement he likens to an effect that each technology has on the society into which it is introduced. In order to glean the most understanding out of each, the reader must break the portmanteau into separate words (and many of these are themselves [|portmanteaus] of words taken from multiple languages other than English) and speak them aloud for the spoken effect of each word. There is much dispute over what each portmanteau truly denotes.

McLuhan claims that the ten thunders in //Wake// represent different stages in the history of man:[|[][|57][|]]

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 * //Thunder 1: Paleolithic to Neolithic.// Speech. Split of East/West. From herding to harnessing animals.
 * //Thunder 2: Clothing as weaponry.// Enclosure of private parts. First social aggression.
 * //Thunder 3: Specialism.// Centralism via wheel, transport, cities: civil life.
 * //Thunder 4: Markets and truck gardens.// Patterns of nature submitted to greed and power.
 * //Thunder 5: Printing.// Distortion and translation of human patterns and postures and pastors.
 * //Thunder 6: Industrial Revolution.// Extreme development of print process and individualism.
 * //Thunder 7: Tribal man again.// All choractors end up separate, private man. Return of choric.
 * //Thunder 8: Movies.// Pop art, pop Kulch via tribal radio. Wedding of sight and sound.
 * //Thunder 9: Car and Plane.// Both centralizing and decentralizing at once create cities in crisis. Speed and death.
 * //Thunder 10: Television.// Back to tribal involvement in tribal mood-mud. The last thunder is a turbulent, muddy wake, and murk of non-visual, tactile man.