perfidy

In an addendum to Geeklethal's post on Vonnegut and why Americans are not universally loved, I misquoted Gertrude Stein writing about Oakland, California. I said she wrote, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer, when in the course of human events our fathers brought forth on this continent milk, bread, cheese-- dental floss!, in Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree, with truth and justice for all, Amen."

In fact, the correct quote is, "give us the money, Lebowski, or we cut off your chonson."