Lord Whimsy Writes: Bah To Ben Boos!
Never mind the sixth borough claptrap: this Franklin defamation is tantamount to a shot across Philadelphia’s bow. Sneering at Franklin for being oh so “bourgeois” (whatever that really means anymore) is the result of the twentieth century intelligentsia’s turtlenecks being a tad too tight. Doubtless, they’d have loved him if an account was unearthed in France that he was once caught in a three-way with Voltaire and a goat. How very transgressive–nay, visionary!
Bah.
I had a chance encounter with “Ben” on the streets of our fair city once, when I was arrayed in full regalia. It was like two ventriloquists having a conversations solely with their dummies.
W
Now you’ve gone and done it, NYT. Don’t you know that whatever you do, you must not piss off Whimsy? Sheesh.
