genuwhine swine (Re: class in america)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 22 10:48:25 PST 2002


ravi wrote:


>my own approach to the book is not to take the meaner parts seriously
>but use it more to poke fun at my own middle-class pretensions, which
>fussell accurately and effortlessly exposes...

I haven't read the book (which I loved) in almost 20 years, but I remember that he also had an out - Class X, where hipster intellectuals could take refuge from his otherwise pitiless taxonomy. That's not on the test, though.

Doug



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