Althouse: "You swear never to write another piece in Second Person."

July 15, 2014

madAsHell said...: When did the NYT start copying thefrisky.com?; 7/15/14, 12:02 PM
Sam L. said...: Well, someone, but not the one typing this.; 7/15/14, 12:45 PM
cold pizza said...: Did you see what you did there? -CP; 7/15/14, 1:04 PM
Anonymous said...: The problem is not thee; it's thine?; 7/15/14, 1:50 PM
SomeoneHasToSayIt said...: Excellent.; 7/15/14, 2:13 PM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: Are you serious?; 7/15/14, 2:49 PM
john said...: “You think to yourself at the start of a really long book about a whale, hey, call me Ishmael.”

Dont' you think poking fun at Melville is way overdue? Wouldn't you think Billy Budd would be a better candidate?; 7/15/14, 2:59 PM
Anonymous said...: madAsHell:

When they look at their financials and are reminded how much people are willing to pay them for information, opinion, and reporting in the marketplace.; 7/15/14, 3:45 PM
ark said...: Italo Calvino wrote a wonderful novel called "If On A Winter's Night A Traveler," much of which is written in second person.

And in his case, it's exactly right, because he explicitly intends for you, the reader, to be a character in his novel.; 7/15/14, 4:34 PM
gadfly said...: You sound like Sam Cooke.

"You send me, hones' you do, hones' you do, hones' you do."; 7/15/14, 5:44 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: And I said to myself, I said, "Self...."; 7/16/14, 10:01 AM