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.