Interesting, Stephanie, thanks!!
Have you made it back to Pdx yet? I¡¯m about to take off from Sea-Tac to get back to Portland before midnight.
Wasn¡¯t it a great AGM??
Arnie
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On Oct 20, 2024, at 10:40?PM, Stephanie Vardavas via groups.io <vardavas@...> wrote:
?I have always thought that this was about the vulgarity of presuming to
compliment a person's "merit" based strictly on their appearance.
On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 1:31?AM Arnie Perlstein via groups.io
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[Jane¡¯s] eyes, a deep grey, with dark eye-lashes and eyebrows, had never
been denied their praise; but the skin, which she had been used to cavil
at, as wanting colour, had a clearness and delicacy which really needed no
fuller bloom. It was a style of beauty, of which elegance was the reigning
character, and as such, she must, in honour, by all her principles, admire
it:¡ª*elegance*, which, whether of person or of mind, she saw so little in
Highbury. *There, not to be vulgar, was distinction, and merit."*
As Emma contemplates Jane shortly after Jane's arrival in Highbury in Ch.
20, she grudgingly acknowledges the elegance of Jane's style of beauty, and
feels she must admire it, in comparison to what she sees in other females
in Highbury.
Why does Emma then think, "not to be vulgar", that this constituted Jane's
"distinction and merit". Is it Emma's sense that Jane is no great shakes to
stand out in Highbury, because there is no real competition? If so, then,
Emma is in effect, undercutting her admiration as soon as she thinks it,
because in fact, she is jealous of Jane's elegance but hates to admit it?
Or
is Emma, in her snobbery, characterizing her thoughts as "vulgar" for some
other reason I am missing?
ARNIE
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