原段是: Nude Erections was the rather purple homophone favored by Ezra Pound to refer to the publishing house he goaded into existence in 1936. Having agreed to meet the American James Laughlin, a wealthy heir to a steel fortune, Pound first savaged the young man's verse, and then asked, "Why don't you take up something useful?" Laughlin, still at Harvard, took EP's advice, and literary high modernism was set in motion. He became a publisher.