to spew

[Jonathan Lighter]

I suppose I might have added "critically" to the definition.

JL


On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Born too soon.
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> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> > I am reminded (allegorically) of Spenser's character Error, in the first
> > canto of _The Faerie Queene_, who "therewith . . . spewd out of her
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> > maw / A floud of poyson horrible and blacke/. . . . Her vomit full of
> > bookes and papers was."
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> > --Charlie
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> > Poster:       Jonathan Lighter
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> > "_trans._ To say or write abusively or unfairly."
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> > Not in OED.
> >
> > Looks like it should be "2d. "
> >
> > 2009 A. L. Croutier, "Introduction" to Wilkie Collins _The Moonstone_
> > (N.Y.: Signet) x: The philosopher H. L. Mansel spewed that this sort of
> > literature aims at creating excitement alone to satisfy the cravings of a
> > diseased appetite: "No divine influence can be imagined as presiding over
> > the birth of Wilkie's work. No more immortality is dreamed of for it than
> > for the fashions of the current season. A commercial atmosphere floats
> > around works of this class, redolent of the manufactory."
> >
> > Really "spewing," wasn't he? (Wait, don't tell me. It sounds normal to
> > everyone but me.)
> >
> > The distinguished Alev Lytle Croutier (b. 1945) is a former Guggenheim
> > Fellow whose work has been translated into 22 languages.
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> > PS: The direct quotation from Mansel is slightly but embarrassingly
> > inaccurate - as suggested by the chummy reference to Wilkie Collins as
> > "Wilkie." In fact, Mansel (Quarterly Review, Apr. 1863, p. 483), writing
> > anonymously, is describing the "sensation-novel" as a genre rather than
> > singling out Collins for criticism.
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> > JL
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