fiction
edward w prritchard
Here's something I wrote before and a comment or two at the end
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Sunday, August 1, 2010
america's not great britain-chelsea clinton's wedding
america's not great britain--chelsea clinton's wedding
fiction
edward w pritchard
Since the Mayflower days America's been struggling to live up to the pomp and cultural heritage of Great Britain. While we look across our noses at their fascination with royalty and we favorably compare Harvard and Princeton with Oxford and Cambridge; in truth we American's secretly envy and are in a little awe of the British cultural Heritage. True Faulkner and Melville were great writers but English words flow from Britain's great writers seemingly effortlessly, Tennyson, Shakespeare and a slew of others will overwhelm the American reader with routine flashes of divine inspiration cutting,inserting, and refining English words to define our cultures peculiarities.
Now I see the American marketing industry, of which we are the undisputed best in the world, now and before, is trying to present the wedding of Ex-President Clinton's daughter as a Princess Diana type tale and romance.
The Clinton's seem like the family down the street to me. With all due respect their melodrama is all too familiar and if I were to meet the Mr. or Mrs at the gym while I would nod respectfully they wouldn't seem all that different than me and my neighbors. More intelligent maybe but both human all to human.
I am curious to see if the American marketing machine pulls this off and is able to day by day promote Chelsey Clinton's wedding as a fabled romance.
fiction
edward w pritchard
Since the Mayflower days America's been struggling to live up to the pomp and cultural heritage of Great Britain. While we look across our noses at their fascination with royalty and we favorably compare Harvard and Princeton with Oxford and Cambridge; in truth we American's secretly envy and are in a little awe of the British cultural Heritage. True Faulkner and Melville were great writers but English words flow from Britain's great writers seemingly effortlessly, Tennyson, Shakespeare and a slew of others will overwhelm the American reader with routine flashes of divine inspiration cutting,inserting, and refining English words to define our cultures peculiarities.
Now I see the American marketing industry, of which we are the undisputed best in the world, now and before, is trying to present the wedding of Ex-President Clinton's daughter as a Princess Diana type tale and romance.
The Clinton's seem like the family down the street to me. With all due respect their melodrama is all too familiar and if I were to meet the Mr. or Mrs at the gym while I would nod respectfully they wouldn't seem all that different than me and my neighbors. More intelligent maybe but both human all to human.
I am curious to see if the American marketing machine pulls this off and is able to day by day promote Chelsey Clinton's wedding as a fabled romance.
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