Word: freindship
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stroll through the streets of Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, the power base of Acting Party Chief Zhao Ziyang, offers a glimpse of just how potent the economic force of self-interest can be. The energetic proprietress of the "Freindship" restaurant points to fresh fish writhing in a bucket, trying to persuade passersby that her culinary skills outshine her grasp of English spelling. A street stall displaying posters of the rock group Wham! advertises a dazzling red-and-blue "American garment." Private traders without permanent stands spread out blankets with photos of movie stars, horoscope cards and plastic hair brushes...
...Love and Freindship, Jane Austen...
...least one good girl was not ruined by these books, although she must have read a lot of them to mock so well. Before her 15th birthday in 1790, Jane Austen had written Love and Freindship, erratic spellings and all, into a notebook. There it remained until after her death in 1817; it has appeared infrequently ever since. Too bad. Had this impeccable satire been published at once, a number of sentimental novelists might have found themselves legitimately in tears...
...Love and Freindship is short (some 30 printed pages) and hilariously to the point. It consists of a series of letters from Laura to the daughter of a childhood "freind." Laura pours out the story of her unhappy past and makes herself ridiculous with nearly every vapid word she utters. She complains: "A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Freinds, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called...
...other short pieces in this convenient collection betray an apprentice, if decidedly precocious writer. But Love and Freindship is a miracle of maturity, and one of the wittiest send-ups of nonsense in the English language. -By Paul Gray