on 8/1/01 7:26 AM, Matthew Francis at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> I can't get stop writing in the second person - don't like to think what this
> says about my state of mind. My second persons tend to be a cross between
> 'you' the reader and the impersonal 'you' meaning 'one'. I hate the fashion
> for writing to a *specific* second person and telling them things they know
> already. You know the kind of thing:
>
> Grandmother, you were only 18
> when you married.
> Once you told me
> how you loved making jam
> better than making love...
A Brief Encomium to Matthew Francis in the Second Person
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