Earn your stars and stripes

[David Casseres]

What does Thanksgiving have to do with stars and stripes?  I think of
it as the ultimate secular, civilian holiday (thus my favorite).

A-a-and, the author was Pynchon; the speaker was Prof. Irwin Corey.

On 11/24/06, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Celebrate America's finest this Thanksgiving with our quiz about the great
> American novel
>
> ........
>
>
> The time will come when religion will outlive its usefulness. Marx, Groucho
> Marx, once said that religion is the opiate of the people. I say that when
> religion outlives its usefulness, then opium ... will be the opiate ... Ahh
> that's not a bad idea ... All right ..." An extract from the acceptance
> speech for the best novel at the 1974 National Book Awards - but who was the
> author?
>
>     Jack Kerouac
>     Thomas Pynchon
>     JD Salinger
>     John Updike
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> http://books.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,,1955336,00.html
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