Ha; yes, in a way. It gives you preordained authority, if you will: you've put yourself in a superior position by tone, and thus the less wise and less experienced reader ought just to take you on your word.
As it was, it made me do a double-take, and then it made me laugh, and reread. It's another of what I keep calling your universal sweeping declarations. "She sees something bigger than herself[, and therefore it must be true?]," I might have said, which at some point boils down to "what the fuck brought that on?" because I still have little idea what it is, exactly that suddenly struck you, besides how young and silly we are.
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Date: 2003-07-18 10:59 pm (UTC)As it was, it made me do a double-take, and then it made me laugh, and reread. It's another of what I keep calling your universal sweeping declarations. "She sees something bigger than herself[, and therefore it must be true?]," I might have said, which at some point boils down to "what the fuck brought that on?" because I still have little idea what it is, exactly that suddenly struck you, besides how young and silly we are.