Word: felted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When asked why he chose the second person, O'Nan explained, "I had the feel, the mood of the book for two or three years." But when he tried the first and the third person, they felt "clumsy," "The author steps in too much," he commented...
According to O'Nan, the second person was originally just used for "bad guys...But people aren't bad. They're just very questioned. This guy is good. It brings the reader closer to him. He will sacrifice anything." O'Nan recognized the abruptness of his style but felt the overall intensity and involvement was worth confusing his reader for the first 30 pages. The reader's discomfort and anxiety concerning the epidemic are profoundly enhanced by the voice, by his lack of freedom of thought. His thoughts are Jake's, so just as Jake is helpless against the disease...
...Much easier than I thought. I thought it would be really tough. Directing to me had always looked so hard, and I didn't really want to do it. It just seemed brutal. But as soon as I entered into the process, I felt like a duck in water; I just really enjoyed it. It was really disorienting at first. Auditioning actors freaked me out, I couldn't deal with it. They'd come in, and I felt so bad for them, because I'd been through it myself. So they'd come in, and I found myself apologizing...
...mail message to The Crimson yesterday, Lewis said BGLTSA leaders felt left out of the drafting process for the bill...
...given the mention of the BGLTSA community at the end of the bill, that the BGLTSA leaders with whom I met felt that the drafters of the bill had not made any attempt to work with them in drafting the bill in the first place," Lewis wrote...