Qui sont les Americans?
            Vive les francaises!

--- Marie-Noelle Little <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> At the liquor store,
> I was told that in New York they are taking French
> wine off the shelves
> as fast as they can.
>
> At the college,
> my chairman hearing me speak French to one of my
> students from Kenya,
> told me (again): "Speak American, you are in
> America!"
>
> In class,
> a student told me that she really didn't want to go
> to France on an
> internship, and she got upset finding out that she
> would'n't even be
> able to buy American cheese there.
>
> On the Pound list,
> I found out that French philosophers may be "roundly
> hated just because
> they're French"
> and that "anti-French sentiment is powerful" in the
> US.
>
> In conclusion,
> I wondered if it would be at all possible that the
> time Pound did spend
> in Paris affected him in such negative ways that he
> eventually ended up
> at St. Elizabeths?
>
> But how would I know?
> I am not a Pound scholar
> I am not American
> I am a female
> and my sun sign is Virgo!
>
> Marie-Noelle


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