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2 Comments:
This post reminds me of these words of Ezra Pound, first published in 1913, concerning the difference between the English and the American national characters:
"English conventions and manners are a system of defense, evolved with great skill and wisdom, born of the sort of necessity that presses upon people living close together.
"Everyone in London knows all the people he wants to know. He or she knows all the people he or she has time to know. One has known so many people of all sorts that there is no sort of person about whom one retains any curiosity.
"A new acquaintance is an experiment, a new friend a peril. The acquisition of either means a derangement of one's system of life. It means rearranging one's time to admit the intruder.
"This state of things has pertained in London for some centuries, and has bred a form of procedure.
"This English procedure is rational, and very well suited to the metropolis of a fog-enshrouded island. Our procedure is wholly different. We have another set of unconscious preoccupations.
"Our convention dates, not from an era of sedan-chairs and lackeys, but from a time when people lived at least ten miles apart. You were friendly with your next neighbor because you wanted his help against savages.
"No American ever knows all the interesting people he wants to know. The American is constantly rushing into intimacies, in the hope that each new person may be the person for whom he is looking; the person with whom he can talk about this or that subject that no one of his acquaintance cares about.
"He is dropping people with the same rapidity because he finds only a few of his discoveries worth retaining."
As an American who often visits England, I find that Pound's assessment is spot-on even today.
By the way, I'm happy to have discovered your blog and very much enjoy following it. We apparently have many interests in common.
Wonderful quote—thanks, Kermit!
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