![]() Some verbs, when mixed with colloquial diction, come off like fussy dress-up verbs, eg bewail, opine and bemoan. What is it about personal third-person references that irk me so much? I wish I knew it must have to do with the presumption I’m ready to swallow someone’s own version of themselves, or a sense that the speaker has done way too much navel-gazing… I’ll have to research this… *“One of these forlorn figures wore an oversized black herringbone man’s coat with the cuffs turned back…” *“Thirty-five years ago a certain demented daughter…” Have I mentioned that I dislike the exclamation mark? I do!!!!!!!įurther, if there’s anything that irritates me it’s writers referring to themselves in the third person (unless they're insane). *“I can’t help it if I want to live in the past! It’s my past, the time forty years ago when there was still some wide open space into which to insert some dreaming…” *“Nothing can approach them they are just like life! They define life!” (A poetry that was lost ‘beloved voices now silent.’) Man, I was anticipating it from way before I knew what it meant.” Knowing for sure that loss is coming and prophylactically mourning it. ![]() I could not hook up with the overly friendly colloquial tone that suggests reader and writer are buddy-buddy. ![]()
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