[Vwoolf] "New Yorker" cartoon from 2003

[Anne Fernald]

Explaining jokes is always a fool's errand, and it's hard for me to see
who's talking to whom about whom in the image. (And yet, in I dive.)

But the caption seems to me to capture something about the deep inside of
Boston/Cambridge bourgeois-bohemianism: she's haute; he's down-to-earth
NPR-listening auto-mechanic type. A joke about culture clash w/in the
NPR-listening world.

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:33 PM, Neverow, Vara S. <neverowv1 at southernct.edu>
wrote:

> Dear Stuart,
>
>
> Could the witticism be related to the woman on the right who has her face
> turned away and her hand to her throat as if the conversation has no appeal
> to her? Perhaps the cartoonist did not know that Woolf was interested in
> cars, as indicated by Ann Martin's research?
>
>
> Vara
>
>
> Vara Neverow
> Department of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> New Haven, CT 06515
> 203-392-6717
> neverowv1 at southernct.edu
>
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces+neverowv1=southernct.edu at lists.osu.edu> on
> behalf of Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 13, 2017 2:28 PM
> *To:* vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
> *Subject:* [Vwoolf] "New Yorker" cartoon from 2003
>
> Much as I like Wm. Hamilton’s cartoons, I don’t get this one.
>
> Stuart
>
> [image: image]
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