> 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...
You know, when I write in the second person, it's usually me. The third
person is usually me, too. The first person is usually someone else.
This is why fiction is enormously freeing, because none of the persons
bear any resemblance to anyone, living or dead, except by accident; if I
am him, her, you, us or he, suicide might be a kind of mercy killing.
Best
Alison
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