Prejudices
first published 1919 Octagon Books, 1976 307 pages
Mencken, with his acerbic wit and tongue planted permanently near if not in cheek, laments a world where some feel that all original criticism has been done. New ideas are old ideas with new vocabularies. The things we choose to let offend us today are really the same as those in the past wearing shoes with platform souls just to seem a bit more ominous. With this hopeless situation, it becomes the job of pseudo-scho...
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