Posted by Peter H on April 07, 2002 at 12:12:49 from 213.122.142.129:
In Reply to: Re: Casual Elitism posted by Mike Dennis on April 07, 2002 at 11:00:17:
It depends what you mean by 'lesser', Mike. I think Peter Hunt summed it up well:
'Ransome's democracy, although it does not ignore the trappings of class, is really concerned with something else: mutual respect gained by mutual interest. Thus, the Amazons may have a cook and occasional chauffeur, but they are, in Ransome's scale of things, not superior to the farm boy, Jacky. . . .This is, in a sense, the democracy of childhood.'
('Approaching Arthur Ransome' p 165)
(By the way, I am not Peter Hunt.)