>Doug Henwood wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
>are you calling me a hipster doofus?!?!! ;-)
Heavens no! I'm guessing the Class X option wasn't on his test, not your version of it (which told me I'm hopelessly middle class).
Doug