Re: For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit ...

Surely, Scottie, you don't think me so shallow as to submit to a
Grandfalloon like defending all fellow Brits simply because we hail from the
same island? I don't even care for Woolf's writing, really, sort of
"wish-I-were-Tenessee-Williams" if you ask me. Pretentious as hell, I don't
just mean her writing.
tina

> '... Woolf was a snob ...'
>
> This is not the first time Tina has tuttutted Virginia.
> Which puzzles me. For reasons that I can't now
> quite place, I'd come to assume she was a fellow Brit.
> And as we all know, snobbery - in much the same way
> as honour, courage, integrity & humour - runs through
> the English character as consistently as the word
> BRIGHTON runs through a piece of sugar stick.
> That subtle appreciation of the distinctions between
> the classes is, after all, one of the facilities that sets us
> just that little bit above the Americans.
>
> It's true that the young have no class but a reluctance
> to publish before thirty could just as easily identify
> an insecure prole as a serenely confident toff.
>
> Scottie B.
>
>
>
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