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Re: 1st, 2nd, 3rd - 4th person POV??

From:Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>
Date:Saturday, September 25, 2004, 6:09
 --- "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...> skrev:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 12:24:41PM -0400, Roger > Mills wrote: > [...] > > In the various creative writing classes I took > waaaaay back when (with a > > deliciously bitchy teacher) we had to do exercises > in all these methods; 2d > > Pers. is the hardest, rather weird, and uncommon > in Engl. prose probably for > > good reason. > > Back in my highschool days, I had an English teacher > who was convinced > it was impossible to write a story in the 2nd > person.
Michel Butor's "La Modification" is very famous for being entirely written in the 2nd person. See: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/butor.htm ===== Philippe Caquant Ceterum censeo *vi* esse oblitterandum (Me).