From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   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?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)