You could do worse than _Doonesbury_ as a window
(_one_ window) on American culture. In fact, I'd
choose popular culture over more intellectual sources
to understand a society.
Candice
--- Roger Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/29/AR2005122901452.html
>
> Also,
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_O'Brian
>
> "Some people have speculated that O'Brian's wife,
> Mary, played an
> important part in the shaping, style and content of
> the novels.
> O'Brian wrote the novels in longhand and she is
> believed to have
> reviewed and typed them out for the publisher. He
> testified to the
> importance of her role, and its significance appears
> to be
> demonstrated in the novels written after she became
> ill and died, 'The
> Hundred Days', is noticeably thinner and less rich
> than the earlier
> books even though it was completed before her actual
> death."
>
> He wrote stories. I wouldn't base my view of
> American life on the
> Doonesbury comics.
>
> Roger
> --
> My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/
> "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious." Oscar Wilde
>
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