One of the crying needs of the time is a suitable Burial Service for the admittedly damned.H L Mencken.
Whoever he was?
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4 comments:
Didn't he write scripts for the Marx Bros?
Really? I had no idea but I thought it was funny.
No, he didn't write scripts for the Marx Brothers! (Was that supposed to be a joke?)
Since this blog is based in the United Kingdom, and since Mencken has been dead for 50 years, I understand why his might not be a familiar name. But in his time, the initials 'HLM' were about as well known to well-read people in the United States of America as the initials 'GBS' (i.e., George Bernard Shaw).
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) was born, lived, and died in Baltimore, Maryland (near Washington, D.C.). He was a newspaper editor, literary critic, critic of American life, freethinker, etc. He was described by Walter Lippman (another influential American in the early- to mid-20th century) as "the most powerful personal influence on this whole generation of educated people."
Ooops, I'm sorry. And yes, I think it probably was mean't as a joke. If I didn't know who Mencken was, I hardly be able to quote him, would I?
Who said, The Americans and the English have everything in common except the language?
And being a Scot I'm not even English.
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