It is the missing '... so the novel becomes the possessive active agent
over receptive slavish reader position...
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:36 +1100, Max Richards wrote:
> I read in a bookshop newsletter about
>
> 'a moving novel thats effect builds slowly and then continues' etc
>
> Is this 'thats' a new word?
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> The writer I guess wanted to avoid the word 'whose' and couldn't come up with the
> old 'effect of which'.
>
> (the words are attributed to Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanin Quarterly, and a
> published novelist)
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