[Vwoolf] Casual anti-Americanism

[Diana Swanson]

Very funny!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 23, 2016, at 7:33 AM, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com<mailto:stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>> wrote:

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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