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Notes and Asides.
Dear Mr. Buckley: Upon hearing that I've become a Catholic, people frequently remark, "Oh. Have you read Angela's Ashes?"-the implication being, "If so, how do you justify yourself?"
My husband dismisses them as victims of an ad hominem appeal, and tells me to get used to such crassness as common anti-Catholic prejudice.
A friend from Dublin asserts that Frank McCourt's book panders to the popular notion that Irishmen are drunks living in sod huts, expecting their numerous children to survive on the dole or the charity of the Church. He refers heatedly to McCourt as a "gurrier," apparently an Irish pejorative for one low enough to blame others for his mother's bad marital choice. (But then, this is the same friend who declares a Dubliner is never more content than when nursing a grievance.)
Do you have any comment or, better yet, any suggested ripostes for the aforesaid crass acquaintances? Or should I just offer it up?
Sincerely,
Sylvia Swain Rummel
Fulton, Mo.
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