joe green wrote:
> Doesn't stumble for me -- implication I get is that "worthlessness" is the father's opinion.
>
Thank you both for a disagreement. I looked at the line again and my
take is that any modifier I put in feels like telegraphy: "Hey look,
it's really about a character and even the speaker is a character." If
I have learned nothing else in the last seventeen years I've almost
mastered how to become what I behold.
K
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Kenneth Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
"I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is
reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing
passes.'"--Philip Roth
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