From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 6/21/2014 9:48 AM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   > On 6/21/14 3:11 AM, William Vetter wrote:   
   >> On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:31:12 AM UTC-4, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> But then William and I clearly work very differently. I also don't   
   >>>   
   >>> really get the whole "Do you understand what I am trying to do here?"   
   >>>   
   >>> question. Why does the reader need to understand what you are trying to   
   >>>   
   >>> do? For that matter, when am I ever trying to do anything that could be   
   >>>   
   >>> misunderstood? Not only do I not know how to answer the question, I   
   >>>   
   >>> don't seem to even understand it. ::rueful::   
   >>>   
   >> The following passage is from a literary fiction novel _Tending to   
   >> Virginia_, by Jill McCorkle. Virginia is the POV character. She is   
   >> pregnant.   
   >>   
   >> And she hates yellow. She wishes there was absolutely nothing yellow   
   >> in the entire world. "Yellow is perfect for a nursery because it can   
   >> go either way--boy or girl, yellow," the tennis guy's wife had said.   
   >> Screw her, impregnate her, paint her life yellow.   
   >>   
   >> Did you understand that?   
   >>   
   >   
   > No.   
   >   
   >   
      
   Me neither. Makes no sense. (I will point out that yellow is a primary   
   color, and so inescapable. You might as well disdain oxygen.)   
      
   Brenda   
      
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