Subject: Re: Cravenhearted.
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 20 2002 - 12:24:05 GMT
Oh good God...and this was supposed to be a Letter Home from a Seven Year
Old at Camp?
Onerous? Fustian? How many college students use those words with ease?
:)
Please :).
Teddy was a much more believable boy genius than Seymour is here. I think
Saligner was indulging himself a bit too much...
Jim
Cecilia Baader wrote:
>
> For everyone who commented that the list is too quiet, I thought I'd throw
> one out there for discussion. That is, what is the point of the Story
> Everyone Hates?
>
> If you wade through some of the more purple prose, you might find the
> following passage in "Hapworth 16, 1924":
>
> "I am freely saddling you, one and all, parent and child, with a very
> long, boring letter, quite filled to the brim with my stilted flow of
> words and thoughts. Speaking in my own behalf, it is less my fault than
> quickly meets the eye; among many, onerous things, it is all too easy for
> a boy of my dubious age and experience to fall easy prey to fustian, poor
> taste, and unwanted spurts of showing off. As God is my judge I am working
> on it, but it is a taxing struggle without a magnificent teacher I can
> turn to with absolute abandon and trust. If one has no magnificent
> teacher, one is obliged to install one in one's mind; it is a perilous
> thing to do if you were born cravenhearted, as I was."
>
> Now, if you ask me, I think this passage is the key to "Hapworth" and,
> indeed, the key to Understanding Seymour.
>
> What do you think? Would anyone like to speculate on what it means?
>
> Regards,
> Cecilia.
>
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