Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 10/12/00 2:44:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bfranson@greennet.net writes: << Family of Man Goes West? >Thanks, >-Laura Manley > A quote from Paul Fussell's THE GREAT WAR AND MODERN MEMORY: "Of course there was a whole set of euphemisms for getting killed. 'Going West' was thought to be too la-di-da." >> So what was Horace Greeley really trying to say in the mid-1800's - something like "Die, Yuppie Scum?" Joe Sobel Joe