Eastern Seaboard West Coast (rebroadcast) - 22 August 2011

<p>SUMMARY<br /><br />Shadowdabbled. Moon-blanched. Augusttremulous. William Faulkner often used odd adjectives like these. But why? Grant and Martha discuss the poetic effects of compressed language. Also, African-American proverbs, classic children's books, pore vs. pour, and the double meaning of the word sanction.<br /><br />FULL DETAILS<br /><br />Amid the stacks of new titles at the library, Grant picks out The Wind in the Willows to read with his son. The hosts discuss the appeal of classic children's books. <br /><br />A bi-coastal listener wonders about the terms West Coast and Eastern Seaboard. Why don't we say Californians live on the Western Seaboard?<br /><br />Does an avid reader pore or pour over a book?<br /><br />There is always a person greater or lesser than yourself. Grant shares this and other African-American proverbs.<br /><br />Quiz Guy John Chaneski borrows a classic game from Joseph Shipley called Twin Ends.<br /><br /> The expression that smarts, meaning "that hurts," dates back over a thousand years. <br /><br />Does sanction mean "a penalty" or "an approval"?  Well, both. Martha explains the nature of contranyms, also known as Janus words. Here's an article about them in the periodical Verbatim.<br /><br />www.verbatimmag.com/27_2.pdf<br /><br />Listeners share their suggestions for the game What Would You Serve?  Hosting a golfer for dinner? Tea and greens should be lovely!<br /><br />William Faulkner used adjectives like shadowdabbled, Augusttremulous, and others that can only be described as, well, Faulknerian. Grant and Martha trade theories about why the great writer chose them. <br /><br />The University of Virginia has an online audio archive of Faulkner's during his tenure as that school's Writer-in-Residence.<br /><br />http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/<br /><br />Here's a 1956 interview with Faulkner about the art of writing. It ran in The Paris Review.<br /><br />http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4954/the-art-of-fiction-no-12-william-faulkner<br /><br />In a previous