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Barry Crimmins wrote:
> My recollection of Brooks work was that he felt Twain failed to accomplish
> what he could have because he wrote humor. He felt that Twain vented his
> intellectual steam through humor rather than let it build to an eruption of
> genuine intellect.  So I may have been slightly hyperbolic in coining the
> term "humoracist" but only slightly.

Thanks for the clarification.  I had originally totally missed the meaning
of humoracism, a racist attitude toward humorists, I now presume.

larry                          [log in to unmask]

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