Subject: Re: Literary Defects
From: Ed Fenning (ed361@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 15:19:28 EST
--- Matt Kozusko <mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu>
wrote:
> To my mind, that tattered "quite" is the flattest
> Salingerism in the book
> (so to speak). "Quite" is quintessential
... a litterbug of a
> modifier ... some kind of aesthetic spice for adding
urbanity;
And Quentin Crisp might have said it was part of Drag,
which, I think, he also said was simply the
exaggeration of turn of the century (1900 that is)
manners of upper middle class British women.
I did not come from a family that used "quite".
However artificial it has sounded to me I think it
does serve a purpose as a modifier. I find it to be a
useful word in conversation; however, I never quite
stop having a "stagey feeling" in my mouth whenver I
do use it.
- Ed
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