Bananafish Archives, February, 2002: Re: Cravenhearted.

Subject: Re: Cravenhearted.
From: catie mcdonald (catiemc@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2002 - 17:49:11 GMT

the key to "fustian" maybe its meaning. the american heritage dictionary states, "pretentious speech or writing; pompous language." maybe that is the point?

but really, who knows. i have yet to get my hands on a copy of hapworth, so who am i to comment?

catie mc

>From: Jim Rovira

>Reply-To: bananafish@roughdraft.org

>To: bananafish@roughdraft.org

>Subject: Re: Cravenhearted.

>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:30:31 -0600

>I'm sorry, but I don't believe that for a second. Not for a nanosecond. Not

>a hair of a millisecond. The facility with language was exceptional for a

>college student (at least, all the college students I've read), impossible

>for a seven year old.

>And while I believe an avid reader of Austen would encounter the word

>"fustian" (although I don't recall it, I won't say it isn't there), that

>doesn't mean said reader will not need to look it up, much less incorporate

>it into their everyday, write home to parents vocabulary...

>Jim

>Cecilia Baader wrote:

> > --- Jim Rovira wrote:

> >

> > > Onerous? Fustian? How many college students use those words with ease?

> >

> > Fustian. I don't think you should make the mistake of the

> > vocabulary-deficient college students of today with any child of

> > yesterday.

> >

> > However, "onerous" and "fustian" are words that even a college student of

> > today could find in any Jane Austen novel without looking very hard or

> > very long. If Seymour is in need of a teacher and is looking to books to

> > find that teacher, it would make sense that he should abscond with the

> > favorite words of his favorite authors. Later in "Hapworth 16, 1924"

> > Seymour lists the works of Jane Austen as necessary to him, even though

> > he's read them before.

> >

> > Besides. At the age of twelve, I wasn't above using a "fustian" or two

> > myself.

> >

> > Regards,

> > Cecilia.

> >

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