… which Potter defines as "to confuse, irritate and depress by the use of foreign words, fictitious or otherwise."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/opinion/03sun3.html

(catching up on the last few days!)

Nope. Don't see it. There's a certain je ne sais quoi about his weltanschauung that just doesn't sit well with me.

But Potter's work was something of a leitmotiv for that post-werre yet pre-fin-de-siecle age, don't you think?

D'accord. He certainly captures the Zeitgeist of la generation perdu.

you guys sound like a bunch of gangstas...

I'd say it was just another puis de fantu almerique