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Originally Posted by merrylander
You left out that charming blond Ann Coulter, now there is a real piece of work.
Coincidence, I had always liked H.L. Mencken and here I am within a hop, skip and a jump of Charm City, his hometown. Another one I liked was Dorothy Parker, I seem drawn to all the sarcastic ones.  |
Charm City is where I grew up so Mencken has always been more or less a local hero of mine. I admire Dorothy Parker as well and another member of the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley. (Funnily enough, I lived in Princeton for a while too and while there met Robert's son Peter who wrote "Jaws".)
I gather that, as much as we might like the written words of Mr. M and Mrs. P, we probably would
not have liked them very much as people. They were apparently pretty tough to be around.
John