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Originally posted by thetalady
If you liked A Southern Belle Primer, you must read Florence King's Southern Ladies and Gentlemen and Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady.
They are both PRICELESS!!!
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Co-sign.
A short excerpt from "Southern Ladies and Gentlemen".
Chapter One - "Build a Fence Around the South and You'd Have One Big Madhouse" or: The Tip of the Iceberg
"I have good reason to know that the only way to understand Southerners fully is to be one. When I was in graduate school at the University of Mississippi, I found myself party to a drunken kidnapping and ended up in a rowboat in the middle of a lake at 2:00 a.m. with an hysterical Southern belle who kept hissing: 'Kill him, Wake, kill him!'
Suddenly I wondered: How did I get into this? What am I doing here? How was it possible that a sane young woman like myself could merge so effortless into a situation that bizarre?
The answer came to me just as suddenly. I was not sane, I was a Southerner. It is interesting to speculate on the moment when a child first realizes that he or she is a Southerner. No one ever actually tells him he is one, but something always occurs at a very tender age that helps fix it in his mind. The moment of truth tends to arrive in a burst of comprehension, following an incident in which an important truth suddenly becomes perfectly clear despite the fact that it makes no sense whatsoever. Once a child successfully negotiates this psychological legerdemain and snatches chaos from the jaws of logic, he wins his crossed cavalry sabers."
