[lit-ideas] FW: Re: Just a cigar?
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:53:12 -0400
I outdid myself. With a little imagination I hope it was clear that I
meant the beginning of the end of the old way of life, which was already
quite underway, and was perhaps reflected linguistically.
Later, said the latter alligator.
> Okay, so why this movie and why now? Is there precedent? If you are of
> the persuasion that life happens in a vacuum, that things just pop up on
> their own, then that will settle the issue.
>
> For David Ritchie, I like the explanation, sort of a 1970's reverse
> snobbery. Usually the lower classes emulate the upper (sumptuary laws for
> example). I wonder if in fact the upper classes picking up linguistic
> mannerisms (a linguistic mannerism) of the lower classes is one more way
in
> which the end of the 19th century paralleled the changes of a century
> latter. I wonder too if that doesn't mark the end of the beginning of the
> way we live now? WWI is generally credited with destroying the old order,
> but the Industrial Revolution had been in full swing for a while to that
> point. Too much sitting on one little word?
>
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