genuwhine swine (Re: class in america)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>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

Yes, a very funny book.  Fussell was the first identify the fashion trend, 
now universal, toward clothing *designed* to make the wearer look imbecilic 
-- his prime example being what he called the "adjusto-strap prole cap," 
which has become almost mandatory attire among my fellow commuters.  But I 
still don't forgive Fussell for saying that white flowers are the only 
classy blooms and flowers of other colors merely vulgar.  Guy must have a 
really boring garden.

Carl

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