Omniscient voice is difficult to pull off. But how else are we to come to know the nuances of the cat's self-image, except by means of florid implications like "ambivalent pussience"? (Which my eye heard as "ambient pussiness" at first encounter, of course. Me like!)
By the way, that webpage (http://rateekm.freeshell.org) rather than the gopher link is where I'll be doing updates, and the key term will be "grant proposal", which I think is somewhat akin to the mechanics of your process as I understand them. (In that environment client development is of more interest than user content, likely, and I just can't go there right now. More likely to switch to the redmartian domain, which is looking very comfortably niche-like at this point.)
Well, ALL the Thomas Covenant books are like that. If it's not Covenant himself running incredibly complicated internal dialogues, it's Linden Avery instead. We are only ever told about the internal states of these two characters - the others are just "there". In truth the whole series is an exercise in Gothic Romance in the classic sense.
"Workplay", I think of it as: not quite the same thing as multi-tasking, because done primarily or solely at ones own pace.
The way you're describing the POV, it almost sounds like second-person limited. So I'm concluding that the author is carrying off conveying a sense of the florid rotundity of that era, but still retaining the advantages of limited POV's.
I'm reading The Feast of All Saints (Anne Rice), and, genius that she is, she (or her editor) occasionally falters there in carrying off the omniscient point of view.
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Good rendition!
Me, I didn't actually know there was a third series.
:::smack self upside head:::
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By the way, that webpage (http://rateekm.freeshell.org) rather than the gopher link is where I'll be doing updates, and the key term will be "grant proposal", which I think is somewhat akin to the mechanics of your process as I understand them. (In that environment client development is of more interest than user content, likely, and I just can't go there right now. More likely to switch to the redmartian domain, which is looking very comfortably niche-like at this point.)
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Finally started working on the proposal.
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The way you're describing the POV, it almost sounds like second-person limited. So I'm concluding that the author is carrying off conveying a sense of the florid rotundity of that era, but still retaining the advantages of limited POV's.
I'm reading The Feast of All Saints (Anne Rice), and, genius that she is, she (or her editor) occasionally falters there in carrying off the omniscient point of view.
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