>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] Right, what I meant to imply was that Brooks was a bigot towards humorists but I did not mean to imply he was a racist in the traditional sense. Thanks for giving me a chance to clear that up. Barry Crimmins