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Re: CHAT: Nov 11th

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Thursday, November 18, 1999, 18:21
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, John Cowan wrote:

> Ed Heil wrote: > > > (For the benefit of those unfamiliar with the acronym, WASP means > > "White Anglo-Saxon Protestant" and often, though not in this instance > > as far as I can tell, connotes "rich; golf-playing; constipated; > > boring.") > > "I am what is commonly known as a WASP, and therefore belong to the > only ethnic group that it is entirely safe to ridicule." > -- Northrop Frye
I expected better of Northrop Frye. Okay, after Anatomy of Criticism, no, I really didn't.