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From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: "Little Sensation"
Frederick
I blame us for Maggie.
(I'm English so I'm allowed to say that)
the bitch was the concentration of everything mean, niggardly, and
self-congratulatorily stupid but cunning about the English.
She probably was. Just as Bush is - so far - the worst in us. Though that
is a category with no downward limit, and McCain may expand it heroically.
But the "us" the wife emphasizes in my poem just means her and her husband -
just as the speaker (the convenient, nearest American) was blamed personally
for Reagan by the woman in Stockholm.
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