Long Review Essay on Wizard Knight

Matthew King · 27 Sep 2007, 21:03 · from 2007-September.txt.gz

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Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:03:37 -0500
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On Sep 27, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Michael Straight wrote:

>
>> Wolfe's disbelief in the third person voice provides the constraints
>> within which his genius flows.
>
> I can't think of a better way to summarize the key worthwhile insight
> of postmodernism.  There is no such thing as a third person
> perspective.

Have any of the po-mos written about the evolution of the idea of the  
third person?

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