I seem to be (and worse as I get older) pretty much a literalist, and also to read pieces like this as attempts to persuade. These combine to flip my skepticism to high beam very early in reading, with the result that I become frustrated and unsympathetic to the writer and her point. I have the same reaction across all sorts of social-point-making; my reaction is obviously me and not a response to any writer's work.
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Date: 2004-12-13 02:50 pm (UTC)I seem to be (and worse as I get older) pretty much a literalist, and also to read pieces like this as attempts to persuade. These combine to flip my skepticism to high beam very early in reading, with the result that I become frustrated and unsympathetic to the writer and her point. I have the same reaction across all sorts of social-point-making; my reaction is obviously me and not a response to any writer's work.
Thanks again,
K. [it's a forest and trees thing]