Friday, May 15, 2020

"California Girls"

Yester-day, the Beach Boys tweeted about "California Girls," which either reminded me of something I'd neglected to write about or made me fully realize something I had been dimly aware of:  the first verse is an example of a rhetorical catalogue:  "east coast girls... southern girls... midwest farmers' daughters... And the northern girls."  Its function here is to illustrate the wide variety.