From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   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.   
      
      
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