JW> ... A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money
ML> Didn't Hemingway say that to F. Pretentious Scott Fitzgerald?
He might have but it's widely asttributed to W.C. Fields.

I can't find any verifiable chain leading to W.C., but during
my most interesting sidetrack of the year, I encouhtered this
rather interesting commentary regarding the Fitzgerald-Hemingway
anecdote:

... at lunch with his and Fitzgerald's editor, Max Perkins,
and the critic Mary Colum, Hemingway said, "I am getting to
know the rich." To this Colum replied, "The only difference
between the rich and other people is that the rich have more
money." (A. Scott Berg reports this in Max Perkins, Editor
of Genius.") Hemingway, who knew a good put-down when he
heard one and also the fictional uses to which it could be
put, promptly recycled Colum's remark in one of his best
stories, with a revealing alteration: he replaced himself
with Fitzgerald as the one put down. The central character
in The Snows of Kilimanjaro remembers "poor Scott Fitzgerald
and his romantic awe of [the rich] and how he had started
a story once that began, 'The very rich are different from
you and me.' And how someone had said to Scott, yes, they
have more money."
...
But Fitzgerald also made a very unfortunately worded entry
in his notebook: "They have more money. (Ernest's wisecrack.)"
... five years after Fitzgerald's death, [Edmund Wilson]
included this entry, explaining in a footnote that "Fitzgerald
had said, 'The rich are different from us.' Hemingway had
replied, 'Yes, they have more money.'"
... Lionel Trilling repeated the "famous exchange" which
"everyone knows" ... when Harry Levin also included it in
"Observations on the Style of Ernest Hemingway" it became
virtually canonical.
- Eddy Dow, professor at Rutgers in a letter in the New York
Times on 11/13/88 - https://tinyurl.com/nyt111388

This has been corroborated elsewhere - Hemingway dishonestly
making hay out of Fitzgerald's insecurity. Poop on both of
them - they, and other must-reads such as the Silly Ass Marner
and the Mayor of Casterbridge (Castor Oil), were the bane of
all our existences in high school.

ML> the average member of my high school and college classes would
ML> be a 5%er with many 1% and a sprinkling of 0.1% in both.
I am not at all surprised to hear that about Harvard.

My high school, speaking of which, was the model (and one of
the shooting locations) for the movie Rushmore, one of many
films about rich folk.

I just conjured up a truly delicious cocktail that may well be
original. I couldn't find anything just like it on the net.
No Name Yet
1 oz bison grass vodka
1/2 oz Capari
1 ds lime juice
2 oz tonic
on the rocks

It looks good. High-voltage Campari tonic that actually
has a chance of achieving the desired effect. Does the
faintly vanillary bison grass come out well?

Today's chuckle ...
The pilot said, "We'll be landing in Los Angeles in 20 minutes; the temperature there is currently 85 degrees" and all the Europeans
onboard started screaming in terror.

Sort of funny. It would be slightly more plausible if the
passengers had been described as Mississippians and the
temperature were zero.

And today's Diwali Treat ...
Title: Sev

... It's so out-there original it doesn't even exist yet.

People make megacorporations based on these.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

Title: Mock Chopped Liver
Categories: Spreads, Vegetarian
Yield: 12 servings

1 c Dried Lentils; - and turning brown
- cooked until soft, drain. 2 Garlic cloves (or more)
1 lb Green beans - (saute with the
onions)
- boiled or steamed until 1/4 c Unsweetened peanut
butter
- cooked, but not mushy - (like Laura Scudders)
1/4 c Peanuts (or more) - optional
1/2 c Chopped walnuts Salt & pepper to taste
2 c Diced onions; sauteed in oil Spike seasoning
- until very soft - (if you have it)

Blend it all in the food processor until smooth. I do everything
separately, then mix it all together because my food processor is not big
enough to do it all at once.

Serve as a sandwich spread, or on crackers.

This recipe makes *a lot*. I think it freezes well, just stir well after
it thaws, and make sure the lentils and green beans are well drained.
Serve
with crackers or make sandwiches with it. This recipe makes quite a lot
of
spread.

From: tracy@telesoft.com (Tracy E. Childs @tesla) @Newsgroups:
rec.food.veg

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