tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163426770309734512.post4296789857212749679..comments2023-10-02T04:34:19.086-07:00Comments on Letting go is flying--Trado ut Fuga: The First Gate of the UnderworldMaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10093482801570760876noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163426770309734512.post-47312436110175442482014-10-22T07:12:12.681-07:002014-10-22T07:12:12.681-07:00I would read a book written in this way ... mostly...I would read a book written in this way ... mostly. <br /><br />These days I'm often very careful about reading anything lengthy that speaks in the second person. I don't want to take your words as instructions to me, or descriptions of me -- what if they're not? But as I read "feeling betrayed ... you sink deeper" I find myself imagining that this is the only experience I could have in meeting Oranos. But what if I eventually venture there, and my experience is different?<br /><br />So, as a reader, I'm cautious with the form "you do, you feel, you see" etc. Even more cautious in print and in audio than I am in conversation, where, if someone does it too much, I will inevitably say something like 'please don't put your experience on me.'<br /><br />As an editor, though, I have a comment. If this comes across as unsolicited advice I hope you will feel free to consign it to the circular file (or its equivalent in cyberspace). I wonder, as an editor, if your own experience of writing this book might be even deeper if you wrote in the first person.<br /><br />"Instead, as if by bait and switch, here in the edges at the beginning of time, I meet Oranos, the monstrous Titan father who devours his children. Feeling betrayed ... I sink deeper ..."<br /><br />Or perhaps you mean to be leading us readers in having this experience? <br /><br />So, anyway, I'm intrigued. You're onto something valuable and I would read this book. I hope you continue with it.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com