Yeah, true of him too. He was just telling me. Sometimes somebody else comes
down through my hands and what isn't me finds it has written a poem, or
hopes so.
If 'I' try to write as me I discover there my native inarticulacy. But, and
this a proviso, among the characters there is also one called me for whom I
can convincingly write in the first person.
But now the pronouns are feeling threatened, and identities are becoming
louche, so I'll stop there before things get really entangled.
Best
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Francis" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: we/self and suicide
> Alison writes:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> This is true of me, too. There's something in Freud somewhere that says
the
> 'I' of the dreamer isn't necessarily the 'I' of the dream, but may
> correspond to some other figure in the dream. And there's also Eliot's
> remark about writing as a means of escape from personality.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Matthew
>
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