Subject: quite, quite
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 12 2000 - 02:40:57 EST
'Quite' could well be summoned before the Committee.
As Ed points out, there's something fishily Un-American
about it. OK for people like Noel or Quentin or me
to stand on the bridge of the sinking destroyer acknowledging
incoming fire with tight-lipped 'quites' - but not really
the thing for a wholesome boy from Texas.
But Matt's revulsion sounds a bit more heartfelt . Was it
something happened last summer at the Court of King Arthur?
Some shrivelled English rose receiving a declaration of love
with a 'quite'? Or maybe the stillness at High Table as
a Derridan exposition of Kipling's IF was broken by
a solitary 'quite'?
I can hardly imagine Doubleday - or even Bantam - do
monosyllabic rejection slips.
Scottie B.
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