{"id":1354,"date":"2004-04-18T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2004-04-18T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T20:37:00","slug":"1354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

When I hear the word ‘transgressive,’ I cock my Browning*<\/strong><\/p>\n

University Diaries has a great entry (18 April)<\/a> on a tempest in a creative-writing teapot at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University.<\/p>\n

What caught my attention was her reference to Paul Fussell’s book Class<\/em>. Although he later claimed, perhaps disingenously, that he wrote the book as a joke, it remains one of few accessible studies of a social issue that is more taboo to discuss in America than are fantasies of being a serial killer.<\/p>\n

*<\/strong> from a line by the German playwright Hanns Johst, “Wenn ich Kultur h?re … entsichere ich meinen Browning,” often wrongly attributed<\/a> to Air Marshall Goering of the Third Reich and translated as “When I hear the word Culture, I reach for my revolver.”<\/p>\n

(As some of my regular readers know, John Browning<\/a> [1855-1926] is more known for designing the 1911 Colt .45 automatic pistol<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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