she said
*surfaces*
How extraordinary.
There's a point in this unnervingly authentic third person narrative where it switches to first person. Like literally in the middle of the sentence. Talk about a shock through the entire body and a fervent seizing of the eyes upon the page, re-reading the sentence and scanning the paragraph before just to make sure it hadn't happened before.
I wonder if it was deliberate. I mean, it so totally is in American Psycho when the first person narrative switches at the most threatened point of the novel to third person, when Patrick pretty much starts narrating the police chase sequence in third person. But then of course he would, the magnificently fucked up wuss.
But here? It's just once. Could totally be a typo. But since 1954?! It must be deliberate. Maybe a sly little wink from Pauline Reage/Anne Desclos to the reader, that flash of cheeky acknowledgement. "Yeah, you know I did all this, you know I know exactly what I'm talking about ..."
And suddenly, absurdly it occurs to me that it goes "A-E-I-O-U" ... ha!
Ooh, I wonder.
*goes back into the book*
Oh. Story Of O, I mean. Sorry.
*submerges*
How extraordinary.
There's a point in this unnervingly authentic third person narrative where it switches to first person. Like literally in the middle of the sentence. Talk about a shock through the entire body and a fervent seizing of the eyes upon the page, re-reading the sentence and scanning the paragraph before just to make sure it hadn't happened before.
I wonder if it was deliberate. I mean, it so totally is in American Psycho when the first person narrative switches at the most threatened point of the novel to third person, when Patrick pretty much starts narrating the police chase sequence in third person. But then of course he would, the magnificently fucked up wuss.
But here? It's just once. Could totally be a typo. But since 1954?! It must be deliberate. Maybe a sly little wink from Pauline Reage/Anne Desclos to the reader, that flash of cheeky acknowledgement. "Yeah, you know I did all this, you know I know exactly what I'm talking about ..."
And suddenly, absurdly it occurs to me that it goes "A-E-I-O-U" ... ha!
Ooh, I wonder.
*goes back into the book*
Oh. Story Of O, I mean. Sorry.
*submerges*