Mencken the Blue
Jason Kuznicki on Jan 29th 2005
A lot of H. L. Mencken hasn’t worn so well over the years–but every so often you stumble upon something that could have been written today. Agree or disagree, you can’t help but wonder where Mencken came up with it:
All the benefit that a New Yorker gets out of Kansas is no more than what he might get out of Saskatchewan, the Argentine pampas, or Siberia. But New York to a Kansan is not only a place where he may get drunk, look at dirty shows and buy bogus antiques; it is also a place where he may enforce his dunghill ideas upon his betters. [from "The Calamity of Appomattox," cited in A Mencken Chrestomathy, p 199.]
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