[lbo-talk] About the joke "The Aristocrats"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Oct 1 08:24:42 PDT 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>But I could take a paragraph from a WSJ editorial and find as
>much depth in it as in _Hamlet_, _Mansfield Park_, & _War and Peace_
>combined. :-)

I'd really love to see that. I was going to say there's not much complexity or ambiguity in a WSJ edit, which is what the New Critics thrived on. But there are many deep layers of lunacy. So it'd be fun to subject something from the studio of Paul Gigot to a close reading.

Doug



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