No Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Faulkner or Warren or Hemingway or Sandburg, no Fords or pickup trucks, no Crospby Stills and Nash or Original Dillards, no Bo Diddley or Satchmo, Bessie Smith or blues at all. No Thornton WIlder or ALexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, Buick or Mark Twain, Henry James, Bret Harte, and Kate Chopin. An absence of Frank Lloyd Wright, American Impressionism, Steinbeck, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and E.E. Cummings. A world without banjos and Martins, hot dogs or autoharps.

Gawd, what a dreary, sorry notion!!!

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