Christ and the Queen's English

[Diana York Blaine]

I was told by a student yesterday that the quote came from a Texas senator
early in the century who, confronted with a swelling hispanic population
in his state, refused to consider bilingual education because, (breathless
pause) "if English was good enough for the Lord Jesus Christ it's good
enough for me."  I found this hard to believe, and your version--linking
it to a much older but no less benighted country--causes me to suspect the
Texas tale even more.  But the student promised me it was true, saying
one of our faculty had found it in the legislative record (urban folklore
alert! urban folklore alert!) and then, to seal the claim for its
veracity, he leaned in and said "the senator was from College Station."
The significance of this last is lost on someone more familiar with the
statue of Moroni in West L.A. (will no one invoke the White Salamander
please God?) than the vagaries of Texiana.  Suffice to say I'm enough of a
(curl your lip with disgust) postmodernist to doubt its authenticity while
still thoroughly enjoying the anectdote.

On this day Diana York Blaine

went to the gym

excreted

perused _V._ scholarship

walked them dogs

returned a tape ("To Have and Have Not")

called her mom

read a student's thesis on Diane Di Prima

went to the bank (well now it's in a huge corporate grocery store)

napped