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To: Flycatcher

It’s hilarious to use hippie rhetoric to describe a text written in the early 1950s that was actually a piece of glowing Americana.


36 posted on 08/18/2008 12:45:36 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

I hear ya. My hunch is he hasn’t read it.


37 posted on 08/18/2008 12:48:57 PM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: Borges

I hear ya. My hunch is he hasn’t read it.


38 posted on 08/18/2008 12:48:57 PM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: Borges

Ole Vlad WAS a hippie. I submit the following:

A)Of Russian heritage. He was from a communist country!

B)His obsession was butterflies — a well known symbol of hippies.

C)He wrote poems! Pale Fire.

D)He lived in France for a time.

E) He knew Peter Sellers, a well known actor famous for playing hippies wearing lovebeads. Lovebeads!

F) He lived in Ithaca, a hippie stronghold.


41 posted on 08/18/2008 12:51:51 PM PDT by durasell (!)
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