On Dec 19, 2005, at 1:04 PM, Jon Corelis wrote:
> A word should be said about Lawrence's Studies in Classic American
> Literature, which is something of a neglected classic. Eccentric,
> opiniated, often extreme, it's arguably one of the best books on the
> subject, if your standard of quality in criticism is how provocative
> it is. It includes one quote which surely belongs in any anthology of
> The Best Things Anyone Ever Said:
>
> "The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.
> It has never yet melted."
Right up there with--
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence,
which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
-- A.E. Housman
Hal "Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary."
--Gertrude Stein
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