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An edition of Prejudices (1919)

Prejudices

A Selection (Buncombe Collection)

New Ed edition
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  • 3 Have read

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-scholar to abandon criticism or carnal evils and move on to criticizing the criticism itself. Surely we, being more enlightened, more intelligent and more alive (always a key to proving your superiority to those before your time) can provide a better analysis of what is wrong with everything and right with nothing.
I just dashed this off quickly one evening in an effort to snag others to read and evaluate. Feel free to liberally edit or delete my description.

Since we have been born of immaculate perception, free from the sin of bias, it is our duty to point out for our contemporaries and our posterity what is truly "right" and what is--well, maybe "less right", for in our relativistic culture there is not wrong; 2 + 2 may equal 5 or even 3 from a point of view superior to our own.
Find yourself in these pages. Live life in the third person and begin to recognize how each of us is slave to the history we've studied and lived, servant to our education and personal experience.

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Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices: A Selection (Buncombe Collection)
August 28, 2006, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices
June 2003, Ross & Perry,
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices: a selection
1996, The Johns Hopkins University Press
in English - Johns Hopkins paperbacks ed.
Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices: fifth series
1977, Octagon Books
in English
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Prejudices
1958, Vintage Books
in English
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Prejudices: third series
1922, A. Knopf
in English
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Prejudices: second series
1921, J. Cape
in English
Cover of: Prejudices
Prejudices: first series.
1921, J. Cape
in English

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"During the last year or so, there have been signs of a Mencken revival."

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Paperback
Number of pages
288
Dimensions
9 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Weight
15.2 ounces

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OL7871560M
ISBN 10
0801885353
ISBN 13
9780801885358
OCLC/WorldCat
71891423
LibraryThing
232685
Goodreads
300843

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OL2629639W

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