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A Mencken Chrestomathy, ch. 30, p. 618, Knopf • 1949
Thanksgiving Day-A day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Mencken gives Thanksgiving a dark twist in his definition. People with one painful illness give thanks that they don't have a worse one. It's a sardonic view of gratitude, where being thankful means only being spared something more awful.
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