credit: www.bean-bear.com
Every now and then one spots a fabric they like in an unusual place. Today, the teddy pictured above doing a Sherlock Holmes impression is our subject. First, I have a passion for tweed jackets, but I love tweed suits even more. I currently crave cold weather so I can sport my tweed collection, and fortunately, it is already cool enough in the afternoon to wear them in my neck of the woods. However, I do not own a tweed suit like the one the teddy is wearing, but I love it. I may just treat myself since I have been sick, and have one made. I am thinking either a three piece or a 4 and 1 double breasted.
35 comments:
This seems to be the cloth you want:
http://www.savvyrow.co.uk/p/404567/vintage-3-button-houndstooth-harris-tweed-jacket-40s.html
Let us know if you find it.
STEIFF TAILORS?
Teddy is charming. Teddy is warmly dressed. Teddy is wearing a deerstalker and a half cape that pay homage to a Victorian world of stalking through the damp, chilly Scottish heather to a house without central heating. Teddy is above all a g-ddamned stuffed bear and therefore no substitute for old Mr. So-and so and his swatch books packed with layers of fine English worsteds and tweeds.
Whimsy and tongue in cheek admiration for the clothes of one's nursery toys aside, I too thrill at the prospect of bone-chilling cold and the gun club-checked tweeds that will protect me from them. Spray an aerosol can and bring on the ice age.
May I suggest the Andover Shop made to measure swatch books for WASPy tweed cloth or Chipp II (Winston Tailors) for those Americans to the manner born. Anglophiles take note of the Transatlantic travels of Henry Poole and H. Huntsman.
Of course, it must be said that WASPs insist Teddy be German and wearing only his natural fur coat for the season. They also appreciate how he earned his name by his association with the very WASP Theodore Roosevelt.
Is this a blog for WASPs to share with each other how they dress and where they get the clothes they wear or is it for those who just want to dress like WASPs and appreciate their taste in clothes? I don't mean to sound condescending. This is a genuine question. There is no correct answer but there is an honest one.
There seems to be an element of the pop culture to this blog whereby a person, thing or article of clothing is featured as being WASPy or WASP-like and a sort of free association of comment ensues.
Obviously, some posters take this all very seriously while others just give a thumbs up or thumbs down. What is intended and what is preferred?
Do WASPs "do" serious analysis of their clothes or habits or really anything or do they reach in the cedar closet for shetland and camel hair on their way to a "good, long walk" followed by tall drink to sort it all out? We know they take the latter very seriously.
Let's sort it out.
I think the latter poster is taking quite a bit besides a "good long walk" rather too seriously.
In any event, my vote would be for the three piece -- especially in tweeds, they really seem like cold-weather gear to me.
Whether it's for WASPS, would-be-WASPS, WASPS manque, afficionados of WASPness and WASPishness, WASPS in spite of themselves, WASPologists, or WASPophiles, seems to me to be less important than the fact that the blog is great fun for all of us.
THE BURNING SHAME OF THE CEREBRAL WASP OR NOT...
I do take heritage and the manners and tastes of those who are trusted to preserve and carry the flag forward seriously. Especially these days, when so many speak with derision about Mayflower folk and mock their buttoned-up, quiet well-disciplined and yes, serious ways.
I did not say or suggest that a walk, even a good long one, is itself serious although I was raised on the principle that serious matters can be better sorted out while stretching one's legs in God's fresh air. A more careful reading of my earlier post reveals that I suggest WASPs may not be at all very serious about their clothes and may simply reach for what's there (which is often sensible, comfortable and correct by breeding and not accident) and get on with it be it a walk or a drink.
An appreciation of WASP style and dress is welcome. A pop culture parody of WASPs based on what non-WASPs believe the ilk looks and acts like may be funny to those unknowing souls even to the point of mocking which isn't funny. (See a gin-soaked, top-hatted, spendthrift dilettante and he and his butler's misadventures around Manhattan- Arthur will you please call home.)
This blog is called WASP 101 which implies it is for students of WASP style and dressing. If it isn't meant to be instructional or a place for questions but rather for those swells who "just want to have fun" o.k. but there are deeper depths to be plumbed than toys in tweed.
The jumbled litany of WASP"fill-in-the-blank-here" put forward by the last poster has that marvelously democratic, populist "come one, come all!" ring to it-- how nice except that this idea, while deservedly championed in matters of social justice, is culturally contrary to WASP preferences for exclusivity, privacy and discriminating taste. The drive has a gate and the hedges are high for a reason. The best bolts of tweed are kept out of sight for the select few who have been coming in since they were in short pants and long socks. The most glorious vintages of Krug are gathering dust in a private cellar until they are savored by "we happy few" in an equally private dining or drawing room. Undemocratic- certainly. Snobbish-certainly not. Guarding privacy is sensible and saving the best for old friends is generous.
For WASPS and those non-WASPS who want to understand them and their style there should be an appreciation of standards (a very WASP notion) and keeping those standards high-like the hedges.
Who are these "WASPs in spite of themselves?"
I suddenly feel the need for a gin and tonic after reading these comments.
Dear One Anon of Many:
I take "wasps in spite of themselves" to refer to those who wish that they were useful honeybees, but whos genes have provided them with a formidable sting that serves no purpose whatsoever other than to inflict pain and suffering upon non-wasps".
The last vestaphobic comments do not represent reality.
I would argue that wasps make a far greater contribution to the world than do WASPS.
Wasps are critically important in natural biocontrol. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that is a predator or parasite upon it. Parasitic wasps are also increasingly used in agricultural pest control as they have little impact on crops. Wasps also constitute an important part of the food chain.
That's "vespaphobic", my good man, not "vestaphobic"!
"Vespaphobia" is fear of virgins, not fear of wasps!
(Trivia: Yes, those disturbing two-wheeled vehicles favored by the paparazzi who hounded Dodi and Diana were called Vespas because they are as annoying as wasps).
Not to be confused with "vestiphobia", a fear of clothing--hence a compulsive desire to disrobe.
Turling:
If reading a few paragraphs of thoughtful prose taxes your mind to the extent you need a gin and tonic then you need more than a drink.
Your feeble attempt to be dismissive and smug without being responsive indicates your lack of knowledge about the subject. As a result of your insecurity you turn to rudeness to mask it.
I couldn't help but notice the b&w photo you include with your post and your claimed preference for gin and tonic. WASPs for the last several decades do not wear white tie except on very special occasions nor do they pomade their hair down. They drink a variety of cocktails wine and beer- not the mythical G & T no ice of middle class manners guides on how to be "upper-class".
Your impression that WASPs are all characters out of The Great Gastby who live on gin and tonic and dismiss any serious comment as too unbearable betrays your fraud and your true status as a non-WASP who hopes that by mimicing a pop culture caricature of WASPs you will be mistaken for one of them. No such luck.
Of course, your biggest tell was the snobbery and condescension of what I am certain you believe is "What a WASP might say." They don't.
I hope your gin and tonic, if you drink them, improves your tolerance for dense prose and improves your very middle-class manners.
Good Luck,
Cerebral
Cerebral, in his attack on Turling, has been "waspish" (snappish, petulant)rather than "WASPish" (well-bred, well-mannered).
O WASP WHERE IS THY STING?
It was Turling and not Cerebral who introduced waspishness to this thread of posts with his smug dismissive or perhaps he was just thirsty well...
My reply was in answer not introduction and waspish though it may be there is nothing untrue about it. It is ironic that those non-WASPs who try the hardest to ape WASP speak and manners insist on believing that rudeness or snobbish behavior is characteristic of the ilk. Of course, this is patently untrue and the "triers" reveal themselves at once.
I do not see how my stern rebuke of Turling speaks to my breeding.
The quality of my stock is simply not something you can know. I have known WASPs from good families who are perfect ladies and gentlemen and others who are not.
Being well-mannered does not mean being silent in the face of criticism. Particularly when that criticism is unworthy of that which it attempts to critique. The reply simply takes the critic to task. If you can't stand the heat well...you know what to do.
With sword and shield,
Cerebral
I was simply taking note that many of the commentors were mentioning long walks and drinks. I was unaware I was being smug. I am not a WASP, nor have ever claimed to be. I enjoy reading Richards blog. That's all. And, I happen to like the photo I include with my name. Again, I was unaware I was claiming to be WASP by my choice of photo. Perhaps, sir, you can start your own blog where only you and your WASPy friends can sit around and stroke each others egos. In the meantime, I'm thirsty.....
I find it outrageous that an apparently well-educated gentleman can believe that WASP has anything whatsoever to do with being a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
It's all about taste, bearing, attitudes, style, nostalgia and enjoyment, my good fellow--not about race, ethnicity, or religion.
"It's all about taste, bearing, attitudes, style, nostalgia and enjoyment, my good fellow--not about race, ethnicity, or religion."
You are using the term WASP as a proxy for a certain sensibility and lifestyle. White Anglo-Saxon Protestant...hmm? I have known the WASPiest of WASPS to abandon their post as gatekeeper of the Old Order and get tattoos, and pierce their noses, and befriend (sometimes even marry) people of color or muslims, jews, hindus, or what have you. Does that mean that they are no longer WASPs?
Me: A 32 year-old white anglo saxon protestant woman. I am an attorney. I grew up going to the hunt and grooming my father's polo ponies. Went to an all girls school. Attended Ivy League university. Father drove Rolls Royce. Lived on large estate. I love the classics--Evelyn Waugh, Jane Austen, Thackeray, etc. , but I also like contemporary fiction. I like jazz and cheesy oldies but I also like punk rock. I like a good drink--beer, wine, scotch, the occasional gin and tonic, sometimes a shot of tequila. I do yoga and meditate. Sometimes I smoke. I am blonde haired and blue-eyed. I am wearing a Barbour field coat because my mom sent it to me in a care package. I am also wearing pearl earrings and a tortoise shell headband with some ratty old Pumas. I have a tattoo of a peacock on my back. I own an old Saab but mostly drive my Honda. I can turn on all the WASP charm and talk about boarding school, summer homes, and the country club 'til the cows come home and then chat with bikers at the dive bar. My parents are sad that I won't be home for "The Blessing of the Hounds" this year--they will send pictures.
Am I a WASP? Or do I not get to claim my heritage because I don't spend time debating the merits of winter white and houndstooth for Teddy? True WASPs are not obsessed with convincing the world of their own WASPiness because they could never stop being WASPs for one minute, even if they wanted to.
TURLING REDUX or SOMETIMES A GIN AND TONIC IS JUST A GIN AND TONIC.
Turling writes he meant no harm and is a victim of a dreadful misunderstanding whereby his remark was wrongly interpreted as smug when he intended only to relate the basic instinct of humans and animals to drink- preferably something distilled with juniper berries.
He affirms he is no WASP and with Nixonian flourish a la Checkers is keeping his snap of a very young Gary Cooper with his marvelously hawk-like features and jellied mane --my misdirected opinions be damned.
He's just here auditing WASP 101 because he enjoys the profs. blog. That's all folks.
Well...that is damned disappointing. So much for my scrubing of the words for implied, unspoken malice. Is it possible I've rebuked a sinless heart? Anythings possible. When in doubt give the benefit of it.
I'm sorry Turling. Apparently, there was less here than met the eye.
As for your suggestion I start my own blog so that I and my rotten friends might sit round and stroke our egos --Impossible I'm afraid. I'm not a Freudian so what on earth would I stroke? Ahem. Clear throat now. chortle. cough. cough. Read on.
You don't need blogs for that anyway. As long as the club survives and the Tap Room remains within its walls all will be well in an otherwise mad world--so WASPs tell me.
So GET QUINCHED THIRSTY!
All the Best,
Cerebral
ACRONYMS 101 or A WASP BY ANY OTHER NAME ISN'T.
Dear Anonymous Outrage,
I'm flattered that based on your reading of my little missives you conclude I am well-educated, a gentleman and a [jolly] good fellow to boot. Thanks.
The alma mater will get a little more charity this year. Hell, I may even telephone mother and thank her for making me write all of those g-ddamned "bread and butter" letters to the previous weekends expectant hosts who by her warning would never again let me cross their thresholds without receipt of this future admission ticket which should arrive within a few days of my departure. You hone your writing skills when trying to figure out a new way to say thanks for leaving the liquor cabinet unlocked suckers for the hundreth time.
Let's get this outrage out of the way and be pals. Many people have many opinions about who is or is not a WASP. Let me explain where my opinion lies and why.
First, ancronym as ethonym. The acronym WASP is a common, slightly redundant abbreviation for one who is White, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant.
I realize there vigorous debate persists about broadening the definition to include those Dutch, German, French and Scots who by the present words chosen in the acronym are not explicitly included. Poor Mrs. Astor.
The shorthand was created by the WASP, E. Digby Baltzell, to give a more precise identity to his ilk many of whom he discovered shared a common race, ancestery and faith and also a unique way of thinking, behaving, living and yes, dressing. It is from this ilk and their traditionalist survivors in the present day that we take a cultural and sartorial cue on this happy blog.
One either satisfies Baltzell's racial, ethnic and religious requisites or one does not. That said, on its face, Baltzell's WASP is both exclusive(one must meet the minimum requisites) and yet extraordinarily diverse (the socioeconomic backgrounds and companion cultural habits, manners and tastes of 20th century, American white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants are all over the map-literally as regional differences can be quite distinct among them.) In fairness, Baltzell focused on a much narrower group of WASPs many of whom were of prominent families with historic ties to national government, rich, higher church etc. Much of the time it is this group's clothes and style that are envied, celebrated and, at times, despised on this blog.
We know if one is white and Anglo-Saxon(English by descent or to some, largely English with perhaps a wider British mix of Celtic, Welsh and Scotch)and a Protestant by baptism, faith and worship one is ipso facto a WASP. No further requisites necessary. Just as we know if one is Non-white, Eastern European or Catholic one is not a WASP. George Plimpton is in William F. Buckley, Jr. is out. This is not an insult it is simply an acceptance of the limits of Mr. Baltzell's acronym. It does not preclude non-WASPs, like the late, lockjawed Buckley, from celebrating the rich traditions of the Mayflower, Jamestown, Founding Fathers (at least those Father's from New England and the seaboard South) set or thier 21st century descendants tastes in clothes. He did.
Thus, the 32 year-old lady lawyer who argued the preceding rebuttal can send her father's weary polo ponies to the glue factory, burn his first edition of Pride and Prejudice, dress like a gypsy and take shooters of Tequila with the tatooed Hell's Angles till dawn and she will still die a WASP to her marrow. So too, if she'd had none of the luxuries of the manner born and had been the plain white daughter of a modest Kansas farmer of English and perhaps Celtic Irish stock, shunned Miss Porter's for Topeka High and worshiped as a Methodist and not an Episcopalian she would still be a WASP to her bones. Bottom line: You can be a WASP but not act like or live like what popular culture or your Maidstoner parents imagine you should(See Howard Brush Dean III).
A final thought- Being a WASP, capital "W", capital "A", capital "S", capital "P" has absolutely everything to do with
being a White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant.
Appreciating WASP taste, bearing, attitudes, style, nostalgia and enjoyment [of the good life], my good fellow does not.
Even I need a gin and tonic after this.
Best,
Cerebral
Apparently being Cerebral and being cerebral are far from being the same thing.
WHEN CLEVER ISN'T CLEVER - THE NON-WASP MAKES A JOKE
Is it apparent? How far? Do you have a map or better a GPS to get me there (I'd prefer a compass or better a raven-haired squaw with a good sense of direction)? Is this the best that one may expect as rebuttal? This is as witty as we get? If so, then one has no choice but to claim victory and depart the field.
Amused and Victorious,
Cerebral
If a WASP would sooner go for a long walk or have a drink than put some serious amount of thought into his daily choice of clothes (presumably because those choices are automatic due to apparently superior breeding), then does it not follow that the same fellow would sooner do either of the latter than debate those very frivolities in the comment section of someone's blog that he obviously dislikes? Would a WASP even bother to read such a blog? Why bother to argue with those below his status?
Tell us, "cerebral," why do you bother with this humble blog or its comments? Whether the author means his posts to be taken as serious suggestions on "WASP" style, or means them simply in good fun, if you have identified this blog as somehow non-"WASP," then why even trouble yourself to respond?
Hear! Hear!
THINNING SKINS... WHEN RHETORICAL QUESTIONS AREN'T and LOGIC GAMES FOR BEGINNERS
Agreed, WASPs I know prefer (to most alternatives including getting dressed...) and derive great benefit from, to both body and mind, their brisk and sometimes, long walks. Some take a pre-walk "toddy for the body" to shore up their stamina when facing a particularly long march or, more often, a post-walk reviver to "warm up the blood" when weather is chilly. I needn't mention some old soldiers who require additional fortification en route. God bless them. The combination of a good stretch of legs, a nip and a clear head upon one's return is hard to beat. I shall defend it unto death.
Even so, WASPs have time for other more or less serious interests-including reading and writing.
I recognize the previous poster's first "question" as a material conditional statement deceptively punctuated by a question mark, videlicet:
IF one prefers long walks (and/)or drinking whiskey to choosing what one will put on one's back to take long walks or drink whiskey (particularly since the choice of clothes will often be predetermined by the necessities of weather and the hour)
THEN it follows one would prefer either walking or drinking whiskey to commenting on a blog discussing the clothes one likely had chosen for one or the other pleasure or, joy of joys, both at once.
The statement is patently false.
One may prefer walking or drinking to dressing but this antecedent, if true, does not imply the consequent that one would prefer walking and/or drinking to reading and writing about the clothes others think one likely would have chosen to do those things. Especially, when others are often wrong and, by propagating ignorance of the truth, invite correction or, at least, amused comment.
Let's be honest about what was meant to be conveyed by that illogical statement masquerading as a quasi-rhetorical question.
WASPs do, after all, say what they mean.
It might have gone something like this:
Dear WASP Bastard:
If you like walking and drinking so g-ddamn much and have so much confidence about what you choose to wear to stumble through the garden blitzed to kingdom come, you superior (insert expletive here), then you should be too exhausted and drunk to challenge me or my friends comments when one of us says something profound like that W.A.S.P. hasn't "anything whatsoever to do with being a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant." That sort of genius speaks for itself!
I'll dare you engage others on this blog or challenge a post by Richard (who we're thinking of calling 'Richard Coeur de Lion' that's His Majesty to you!) Doing so clearly means you think your superior and don't like him. If you contradict a comment or offer a thoughtful opinion beyond "Your the greatest Richard!" or "Your cream pants are swell boy!" or better yet, "neat!" your just being mean and disrespectful and we have to have a gin and tonic to settle our nerves.
Honestly, why would a WASP or someone interested in the heritage and traditions of his ancestors read a blog entitled "WASP 101"? Doesn't make sense.
Look egg-head, we're not interested in the commentary of any real WASPs or really anyone who disagrees with us. We ceratinly don't appreciate someone reminding us when we're faking it or hell, just making it up as we go along. Furthermore, we can't tell when your serious or when you're just having good fun and we don't like it.
If you see a post on this blog that adopts a pop culture parody of true WASP style or taste--Don't say a word. Here WASP is what we say it is and don't you forget it!
I hope this scares you away you bad old blogger you.
Pulling up the ladder to the treehouse,
ANONYMOUS
You may use the aforementioned draft as a template in future for your reply to my commentary. I think it captures the generic hand-wringing nicely.
Why do I read and write here? Honesty is important and so is truth in advertising. Maybe it's time to think about rebranding the blog. PICTURES I THINK ARE NIFTY 101 has a nice ring to it.
Here's a question for you: Am I being serious or just having good fun? A WASP would instantly know the answer.
Cerebral and loving it!
Cerebral? Perhaps.
A gentleman? Hardly!
WHEN ADAM DELVED AND EVE SPAN, WHO WAS THEN THE GENTLEMAN?
and THE REAPPEARANCE OF ABSOLUTE MONARCHY
I accept your tacit acknowledgment, however grudgingly given, that my comments are, in part, cerebral. Thank you. Although I agree they are not entirely so as part of my opinion on these matters relies on intuition and instinct.
It is, however, impossible to accept your very summary judgment on my place in the gentry or out of it. You cannot know it. No gentleman need defend the worthiness of his family-good, great or grand, nor would he do so unless he was sure the insult was uttered by his peer (forgive the pun).
Even then, after consulting with counsel to determine if the punishment for dueling is still death and re-reading "Alexander Hamilton-American Marksman", he may demur with amusement instead of violence.
My own unproven consanguinity to kings or to colonial revolutionaries who defy them aside, I assume your incredulity is based upon a very subjective review of my writing and not based on the sturdiness of the broad branches of my ancestral arbor.
One wonders which offense provoked
your damning conclusion--salty prose; a discussion of the merits of pre or post-walk intoxication; your disdain for logic and/or Latin and for those who use either? If any or all, I insist upon a jury of WASPs, all of whom would exonerate me and share my amusement at the prim, middle-class propriety of my accuser.
Or could it be that my act of lese majeste'--an unpardonable offense to the dignity of your white-panted sovereign has earned your ire? For God and King Richard! I admire your feudal spirit but I fear your loyalty is misplaced.
Your man, with his often dandified costumes, seems less the hearty
12th century Crusader, and much more an 18th century figure- The Young Pretender comes to mind. I'll understand if you want to call him Bonnie Prince Richy instead.
For God and The Gentry,
Cerebral
This, Dear Cerebral, is precisely why there is a very legitimate fear of class warefare breaking out in your country.
Dear Orthographically-Challenged:
I assume you meant "warfare", rather than "warefare".
Cerberus, watchdog-at-large
THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF....
Yes, I'm sure I've heard those lofty, confident words somewhere before. Best uttered in in a splendidly non-rhotic, falling diphthong, old Hudson Valley accent by a Groton old boy who would go on to lead all classes of Americans out of depression and onto victory in war.
President Roosevelt was also a paragon of WASPy panache whose witty bow tie, pince nez and jutting cigarette holder remain etched in WASP sartorial history.
Its all very flattering to imagine that my little post might have the power to reignite the Bolshevik flame in the hearts of fellow travelers everywhere-- flattering but improbable. Besides, the worker's of the world needn't unite to take over the means of production or the banks that finance those means--apparently we nationalize our own banks these days with hospitals soon to follow and cheerfully pay fantastic taxes for the public good on gains we've earned from very private risk. What would be left for the poor proletariat to do-except wait for their new glitz and glamour dictator?
I make no comment on the merit or demerit of such "progress." After all, this blog is about the cultural and sartorial markers of WASPs not "The rich and those who hate them."
My post simply replies to the previous blogger's cursory conclusions that I am perhaps cerebral (agreed) and hardly a gentleman (only I and dad can know that). I assure you I have no intention of reconstituting the White Russian Army. Of course, in a different time and place, I would have enthusiastically joined it!
I ask only that we be kind to the gentry and thank them for their civilized ways. They are good folk who don't mind the teasing of others and are genuinely amused by being thought ungentlemanly by their pious, puritanical, middle-class brethren but I wouldn't recommend all out warfare against them. Most of them have been riding and shooting since early childhood. They're orderly and have a good many natural leaders among them so they could form a battalion in a snap.
Shot for shot I take a regiment of them against the whole g-ddamned Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Onward Christian Soldiers,
Cerebral
I just love that Richard became inspired by a Teddy Bear's suit!
Goodness, a few folks in the Anonymous family do take themselves a bit seriously, don't they?
Zelmarific,
Being serious or at least interesting in one's writing is nothing to be ashamed of. Is is really taking oneself too seriously to offer thoughtful or witty comment on the subject this blog claims to be about?
While the anonymous posters here may strongly disagree with one another at least they do truly engage and often come up with novel and interesting points of view.
You couldn't just pay Richard a nice compliment for choosing an original inspiration without adding your little dig that the anonymous posters "take themselves a bit seriously, don't they?"
Who are you asking this question to? Some silent majority of fellow snickering bloggers who you think cringe at the thought of having an honest debate on something more than the bear's clothes? Expanding the discussion is a good thing and not something that should be chilled by others who think doing so is a sign of self-importance.
If you want to insult the anonymous posters by saying you think their comments are too self-important then just say that. Don't try and sugarcoat your insult with some "Goodness" "Mercy Me" "Golly gosh" rhetorical nonsense. If you want to laud Richard's originality great but you don't have to turn that into a pretext to demean other poster's contributions here.
I am amazed and frankly, saddened at how many bloggers recoil at a few paragraphs of substantive prose as though showing any effort in one's writing or thinking (whatever the underlying merits of the position taken) belies an offensive self-satisfaction. That's illogical. I strongly suspect some are dismissive because they don't have the working knowledge to bring anything relevant to the discussion or misinterpret sophistication for arrogance so rather than say nothing they try to mock it. That's intellectually feeble and pathetic.
WASPs aren't all empty-headed lushes. Some prefer serious to silly once in a while- horrors!This blog and certainly this post doesn't demand an existential debate on the value or exclusivity of WASP culture but those who actually take the time to try and understand what someone else is saying and reply to it shouldn't be dismissed by someone who confuses intelligent debate with taking oneself a bit seriously.
Seriously,
The Anonymous Family
Well, Cerebral, I must say after our initial little bump in the road, your comments are bringing me back every morning.
Turling,
It is heartening to know you have grown fond of my prose. Thanks very much indeed.
Let us continue down this winding road together toward the glorious tintinnabulation that celebrates a splendid gentry.
Best,
Cerebral
I'm sorry. I didn't think that through very much before I posted it. You are a good writer, whoever you are.
Zelmarific,
That's quite alright. As Turling may tell you, I can become a bit passionate about prose. Thank you for your kind compliment.
All the Best,
Cerebral
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