[Chancellor Palpatine]

The Mad Fascist? I can see her quite drawn to him.

[Catspaw]

Ah, yes, the Mad Fascist...making broadcasts for the Italian fascists directed at our troops during WWII got him into a heap o' trouble post-war. He spent 12 years in St. Elizabeth's after his acquittal for treason (the jury deemed him nuts in a deliberation which set land speed records). The Cantos are an interesting read, if only for his development and use of imagism based on Chinese and Japanese symbolism. Interestingly, one of the poets he did advance was Blanche's Yeats, but he was more influential with T.S. Eliot, editing Eliot's early work (not the "Cats" stuff---that's after Eliot's brain turned to Maypo.) He went to college with William Carlos Williams, but, despite this linkage, Williams and Pound were not that influential with each other's mature work.