Mencken and Waters

"If H. L. Mencken was the Sage of Baltimore, Waters is, at least, the parsley. Just for fun, consider what these two share: impudence, contrariness, uproarious insults to bourgeois values that made them controversial, then fashionable, then had them prematurely posing for their ­native-son statues. That they’d have horrified each other is just your usual Balmer lagniappe." - Tom Carson

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