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“Couleur locale has been responsible for many hasty appreciations,” Nabokov once wrote, “and local colour is not a fast colour.” <\/em> What did he mean? <\/p>\n I think it’s rather like watching The Full Monty<\/strong> from your sofa in West Virginia and thinking ‘That’s just so awesome.’ Then visiting a Job Centre in Sheffield, England for the first time and realising maybe it isn’t<\/em>.<\/p>\n Or, like meeting cousin Dusty – the most colourful character in the world – and thinking ‘He’s pretty awesome, too’. Then spending a lot of time with him, or somehow being related to him, and realising Yeah, he may be all Couleur and all, but there’s a thin line between awesome and…uhm….well, yeah. That’s still kind of awesome.<\/em> <\/p>\n You know. That sort of thing. <\/p>\n (*Posted with caveat: Author knows bunk about literary criticism.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Couleur locale. N’est-ce pas? “Couleur locale has been responsible for many hasty appreciations,” Nabokov once wrote, “and local colour is not a fast colour.” What did he mean? I think it’s rather like watching The Full Monty from your sofa in West Virginia and thinking ‘That’s just so awesome.’ Then visiting a Job Centre in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}