Parody
"Well, my mother and father taught me that I'm no better than anybody else, but also that I'm no worse. So I said I wouldn't go on bended knee and I wouldn't kiss anything..." —William Weld,...
...While my elegant breeding and constant good humour may have convinced reasonable observers of my confirmation battle that I was worth a hundred of those illiterate, ill-mannered, Bible-thumping cracker cretins who so uncouthly derailed my ambassadorial nomination, I managed to stay above the fray, remembering my mother's...
...It's just more expensive, and commands bigger oceanfront views...
...Your trust fund has ninety-six nmhoii dollars in it," Mumsy once said as we sat on the patio of our villa in Cap d'Antibes...
...William Weld, September 15,1997 78 Regular Guy: The Autobiography of William Weld that stood me in good stead...
...Truly, a New England wryness that has been the mark of the Chuffingtons since they arrived on the Arbella with the Welds...
...That doesn't make it better than other trust funds—or the gross national product of Paraguay for that matter...
...The Chuffingtons, of course, came over in steerage...
...It's not better than the tenements of South Boston, or Logan Airport, or the Louisiana Superdome...
...It was in the spiritual realm that these lessons were most fruitful...
...Just bigger...
...They needed the wryness...
...With the proletarian filth, rotten table mannere and ml breeding like rabbits all around us," Chuffs woind opine, "it helps to remind oneself that one is no better than anybody else . . . For that matter, it helps to remind them you think that, too...
...Or take this house," she said, suddenly expansive...
...I remember fondly the advice of Lowell Cabot Chuffington, my old Latin preceptor at St GrottleSe^ "Chuffs" would conclude a reading of Livy with the exhortation to "remember you're no better than anyone else...
...In truth, this was a lesson I had always been taught by my dear old mother...
Vol. 3 • September 1997 • No. 3
