![]() ![]() What is essential to note here is the basic falseness that can come from crying too much, from overacting, although we're often not too sure when we're behaving that way. ![]() The example above is known by us all, male or female, when we want to rub in the drama queen mentality, and it really makes no difference if we're seen or not: we always play to an audience, real or imaginary. Yates is at his best when analysing social problems, often small problems, ones unnoticed by others because too small. Without spending hours trying to work out who was the first person to use the expression 'cornied it up', I'm going for that person as Yates, one of the key literal sleuths of the spectrum of middle America, the honest but cruel (because honest) dissector of the social malaise throughout the modern age, the spokesperson for a particular America, and by extension perhaps America as a whole. This is from Revolution Road (1961), Richard Yates's first novel. Because the thing was so easily corrupted: let yourself go and you started embellishing your own sobs'. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. 'The whole point of crying was to quit before you cornied it up. ![]()
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