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Friday, January 29, 2010

"The Wrong Side of the Tracks": Grice's inverted snobbery -- inverted

From Chapman, p. 18.

"I was never invited to Austin's get-togethers at All Souls, me having been brought up on the wrong side of the tracks".

Surely he wasn't!

I discussed this in chora and an American-Jewish member congratulated me, "I am so pleased class trumps ethnicity!"

I never knew if he was being ironic, but he was implicating that most of the All Souls members _were_ Anglo-Jewish: Berlin, _and_ Hart.

Dunno.

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