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Thursday, May 01, 2003
Deconstructing Peggy
Quite a few readers (thank you all) sent me this link on The Politics of Polysyndeton which sounds terribly academic, but is in fact quite fun to read. Particularly since Mr. Nunberg takes on my favorite fluttery hair-tossing Daddy's girl. The Blanche DuBois of the Kool Kid's Kult, Peggy Noonan.
The stylistic differences between the left and right aren't just a question of the words they use, but the tunes they sing them to. Listen to a recent piece by the Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan on the resurgence of patriotism, or as she calls it, "the simple idea of the goodness of loving America." The nation that won the war had nothing to do with big-city elites, she says; it was "a bigger America and a realer one -- a healthy and vibrant place full of religious feeling and cultural energy and Bible study and garage bands and sports-love and mom-love and sophistication and normality."
And and and and and and and. . . -- that repetition of conjunctions is what rhetoricians call polysyndeton. It does a lot of work for Noonan here. Each of those and's implies an "and not" -- an opposition to the urban cosmopolitans who don't have religious feeling, don't study the Bible, don't love their moms, and don't have garage bands, most likely because they don't have garages. They're the people that Noonan describes as the "intellectuals, academics. . . , and leftist mandarins," not to mention the "local clever people who talk loudly in restaurants." (And they would be...?)
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