[Vwoolf] Casual anti-Americanism
Stuart N. Clarke
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
Sat Jul 23 08:32:53 EDT 2016
This has been my favo(u)rite for 50 years:
“. . . although I count many Americans among my closest friends, I have not the arrogance to suppose that I understand them, in the sense that I understand the Athenians of 2500 B.C. . . .“ (Harold Nicolson, “Good Behaviour” (Constable, 1955), 15-16).
(Cf. “Probably,” said Jacob, “we are the only people in the world who know what the Greeks meant.”)
Stuart
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