tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post220231443449502241..comments2024-02-14T23:28:11.026-08:00Comments on FORGOTTEN PROPHETS: G.B.S., S.I.B.Jack Hhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04599425185005999225noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-85136913717605054832008-12-23T13:35:00.000-08:002008-12-23T13:35:00.000-08:00Well, first, thank you. It's a haphazard affair, ...Well, first, thank you. It's a haphazard affair, who fails before my baleful eye. I'm not so much Speaker for the Dead as Court Jester. I did read once that Mencken was the one primarily responsible for recasting the Puritans as joyless, unbending bigots. It may be that borish intellectual thug is an apt discription. It the piece I raided for Shaw, he mentions his admiration for M. Hm.<BR/><BR/>JAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19936712.post-4764150940898800202008-12-23T09:58:00.000-08:002008-12-23T09:58:00.000-08:00Your commentaries concerning some of the more tire...Your commentaries concerning some of the more tiresome individuals of Western Civ are always an enjoyable read.<BR/><BR/>I recall your dispelling some rather undeserved myths attempting to crop up around the singularly loathsome Mr. Tom Paine in a response to a flattering column on Townhall a number of years back and have been an avid follower of your chronicles since that time.<BR/><BR/>I am wondering if you have ever managed to include in your anthologies, anything on Mr. H.L. Mencken, another, in my opinion, borish thug masquerading as a Western intellectual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com