Jackanapes again...

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

Don't know if Steely's out there lurking (heyho--you out there Steel one? 
 Greetings from the list that misses you, even when they call you jackanapes),
 but I am glad to see that Steely's accusing me of a racial slur in using the word 
(for I was the culprit) was in error.  Unless, of course, that Hawthorne was
 laying a (silly) racial slur on the Pyncheons . . .

The etymological discussion that ensued back then didn't, IMO, clear up the
 confusion at all.


john m
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C. Endicott writes:
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>I don't remember if someone else mentioned this during that exchange with
>Steely o so long ago, but I was reading "The Quest for Pynchon" by Mathew
>Winston and came upon a passage where Nathanial Hawthorne bemoans the fact
>that "these Pyncheon jackanapes" have been harassing him about their
>unsavory portrayal in "The House of the Seven Gables."
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>talk about a time bomb...
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>CLE
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