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...regulates everything from hunting to setting aside natural areas for protection. The Commission’s Chairman is Joe Melton, a man from Yuma with a deep drawl who (if his dialect at the meeting is representative of habit) seems to be under the impression that first-, second-, and third-person plural of the verb “to be” are “we is,” “you all is,” and “they is,” respectively. As my mother whispered, “Now that...
...themselves simply Ottomans, into two fiercely nationalistic camps. So far, so good. But Birds Without Wings never really takes off from there, partly due to a dizzying flock of principal characters, many with no personal relationships between them. One chapter, for instance, gives you a long first-person commentary from traveling businessman Georgio P. Theodorou, who is rarely glimpsed again. The next is a third-person history lesson about the plots and machinations of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. Then come the musings of beautiful but simple Telmessos resident Philothei. Three chapters about people who are thousands of miles apart...
...work for Jack-O-Lantern was breezily collegiate, rarely sophomoric. As editor-in-chief he acknowledged with a third-person flourish that "He writes only for the extreme left wing of college student, for the man of social perversity." He composed a droll piece that literally translated French to English. (Everyone French student who thinks himself a wit tries that, but Geisel's was good.) He offered raffish etiquette tips: "a man should not sit down before a lady. It is, however, advisable to violate this rule if the lady expects to sit on his lap." He did lots...
Accounting for the origin of the third-person narrative of Norman Mailer in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Armies of the Night, Mailer recalls the unconscious memory of a chapter of The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams. Its imitation in Mailer’s own work was, in some sense, “spooky...
...strangeness of this premise is only part of what sets Notable American Women apart, as Marcus discusses this world not only in his own voice and the voices of his parents, but in a third-person documentary style as well. The text is scattered with brief historical accounts of important events in the history of the Silentists, which also provides descriptions of experiments concerning the essence of women’s names. (These are remnants of the book’s initial conceptualization: Marcus stumbled across Jane Dark while writing fake historical accounts satirizing the patriarchal and condescending ones...