ABSTRACT
It has not done so, but I could say your last sentence or ejaculation had obscured my train of thought. This, however, if it were true, would still not be adequate to achieve the function at which I am aiming. Some people can talk with such precision that the right audience could not fail to understand the communication. An obscure poet may, nevertheless, be expressing something in the shortest and most direct language known. Gerard Manley Hopkins is one example; Browning, in his poem 'Sordello', is, in Ezra Pounds's opinion, another. I suggest a possibility of stimulating, in the listener who listens as he listens, mental activities that intervene between him and thoughts, the obscuring capacity of which is specific, not general.
