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...with his loving stepfather and mute sister. Baxter’s characters are obliquely formed through third-party description, and their identities are further confused by paranoid and erratic actions that the reader can’t understand. In “The Soul Thief,” the gaze of others constitutes one’s self-conception. The narration and structure reflect the confused identities of each character. From the opening paragraph there is an uneasy tension between third-person and first-person narration. At times we are looking at the world through Nathanial’s eyes...
...first time I saw him at the academy, he was reading an article about the Supreme Court. He likes to fence. He loves Latin because "it's a very regimented language ... There's probably at least 28 different endings for any given verb, because there's first-, second- and third-person singular and plural for each tense ..." He went on like this for some time. Max didn't get along especially well with classmates in Sydney and later Kent, England, where his mother first moved him in search of an appropriate school--and where she says he was beaten...
...melodies and endlessly listenable lyrics. This latest record packs into 14 fresh songs more characters than a Shakespeare play and more momentum than a Barack Obama presidential campaign. Every personality in every song is skillfully fleshed out in the space of a few bars, whether from the first- or third-person perspective. The line in “New Routine” about two men telling each other jokes “that they both know / that they both know” is remarkably apt and sure to strike chords with longtime friends everywhere. Musically, the album is more...
...Setting for some of “A Winter’s Tale” 28 Finale 29 George W.’s toilet? 34 “American ___” (popular show) 35 “Gloria in Excelsis ___” 36 It can be third-person or first-person: Abbr. 37 Formal wear 39 Listen (to) 43 Hospital locales, briefly 44 Teachers’ org. 45 Blues singer James 46 *Like someone with a water phobia? 51 Unkempt hair 52 Without a shirt 53 Yoko ___ 54 Hydrocarbon suffix 55 Fox show whose theme song...
Friends didn’t write about Wang; they wrote to him. While at funerals people typically refer to their loved ones in the third-person, on a Facebook.com wall they directly address those they’ve lost, seemingly summoning them with the second-person. The profile becomes a virtual effigy, in many ways more autonomously alive after its subject is dead...