Hmmmm
an American in Paris eh....
I'd be interested to understand how he won his deep insights into the British.
Another famous American who lived for a time in Paris once said "I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization."
There is both irony and sarcasm in this quote. If you know where to look.
Another quote that really sums up my feelings on the Knowledge Garden -
"sarcasm, satire, contempt and cynism are the *rational* response of an intelligent mind confronted by the "meanness, density, selfishness, and mercenary qualities which rule ... " and which "are central to human nature...," a black view, indeed, of humanity? Laughter is the only reasonable response to absurdity, and what's more absurd than the mean, the dense, the selfish, the mercenary ruling all..."