Awesome, and Then Some
23rd January 2010
Dick Cavett, the SWPL reference standard, meets a Real American.
(Warning: Good friends have refused to believe a word of what I’m about to relate. Your credulity is about to be strained.)
Which tells you all you really need to know about Dick Cavett (disclaimer: He and I both went to Yale, the same physical Yale but not the same sociological Yale) and his friends — and his (assumed) readers.
(‘What’s your name?’ ‘Chan Wen.’ ‘John Wayne? That’s a terrible cowboy name.’)