“Pound draws upon the Dantean condemnation of usurers and sodomites as those who pervert nature through economic and sexual practices that prevent natural increase. Quinn's story mocks the bankers he addresses (“Alias usurers in excelsis” [55]) by suggesting that the sailor’s belief that he has produced a child due to a homosexual encounter is a bawdy version of what the bankers themselves practice by charging interest” (Davidson 214).