Subject: Re: quite, quite
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 14:53:14 EST
I have riled the brightly burning old tyger.
Not unrequited love for a withered English rose. Nothing quite
so quixotic. Nor a quiet "quite" shattering the quiescent silence of a
High Table oration on your quarrlesome Kipling. Nothing quite so
quotidian. It's just that I've met my quota of "quites," made my quietus
with that particular qualifier.
"Quite" was second on the House Un-American Activities Committee's top 10
list of practices to eradicate. I love to hear an Englishman chew on his
"quites"; I would give up my Texas residency to listen to Anton Lesser
utter clipfuls of "quites" all afternoon. But on this side of the
Atlantic, "quite" sounds contrived.
-like diamonds in dunghills, clamshells on crushed velvet pillows.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
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