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...current publishers realize, Call It Sleep's history is its finest selling point. To those who equate failure with artistic integrity, three decades of neglect suggests more than ordinary merit. And for culture-snob and intellectual alike, the book's underground reputation has immense appeal. A friend recommended the novel to me, but I probably wouldn't have read it if he hadn't added that it first appeared in 1934 and sold only 4,000 copies, that Henry Roth has written almost nothing since then, that he now raises chickens on a farm in Maine. And I've found...
That is only the beginning of the snob-appeal gifts. Tiffany's fastest individual seller is a sterling-silver money clip that costs $3.50. Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing...
...John Quincy was Secretary of State, later President, but his son does not have much to say about politics-though it seems he made a bet against his father's winning the 1824 election and had to pay up. Intensely proud of his lineage, a bit of a snob, he considered most politicians "hogs" or "fops," and he was,sure that politics was injurious to "the heart, the morals, the interest and the happiness of life." What he liked best about Washington was its Southern location: "The good people of the North are far too steady for my blood...
...employee of a department store whose career depends on his ability to persuade people to keep merchandise they are trying to return. Urbanely, he convinces a woman that she should keep a teakettle because of its unique talent for whistling Beethoven's Fifth. In order to snow a snob, he poses as one Carter Phelps-Phipps of the Phelps-Phippses of Boston. "Strange, I don't recall your name in the Social Register," says the snob. "We have an unlisted page," explains Phelps-Phipps...
...Allen Ginsberg, grand old man of the beats, was persuaded to take on the exacting role of the poet. The opening at Judson Hall could not have been more auspicious; it was picketed by a rival group calling itself "Fluxus," bearing signs: "Fight the rich man's snob art." Fluxus Leader Henry Flynt favors "compositions" in which a group of people assemble in a dark room while ether is blown through the air vents...