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BilSabab lemmy.world BilSabab@lemmy.world
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kat_angstrom lemmy.world kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Well, in an inn, to be precise. Or not even an inn. A room in a pub.

And this is why I've just never been much of a fan of Margaret Atwood. Don't say, "to be precise", followed by an immediate revision that calls that precision into question. Semantics, I know.
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SmoothOperator lemmy.world SmoothOperator@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-08
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kat_angstrom wrote:
Well, in an inn, to be precise. Or not even an inn. A room in a pub. And this is why I've just never been much of a fan of Margaret Atwood. Don't say, "to be precise", followed by an immediate revision that calls that precision into question. Semantics, I know.

I'd consider it part of characterising the narrator. The false starts, the confident statement retracted. It's quite effective in painting the narrator as a certain type of story teller.
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kat_angstrom lemmy.world kat_angstrom@lemmy.world
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SmoothOperator wrote:
I'd consider it part of characterising the narrator. The false starts, the confident statement retracted. It's quite effective in painting the narrator as a certain type of story teller.

I get it, I just don't like it because she does it SO often that I don't find it effective so much as annoying.
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