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]