Doug Henwood Talks

Dennis Claxton wrote:

Carrol wrote:

It’s not all that new. From the OED:

I don’t think anybody said it was. I figure Doug knows it from his immersion in 19th century American literature.

Actually I picked it up from my late friend Larry Wilkinson, who was a big Mencken fan. He loved to quote Mencken on “all that flapdoodle blowing out of the East” - Eastern religion, that is.

Doug

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