Hey Dave, DMB said: I forget who said it and where I heard it, but there is at least one writer who says that writers write for an ideal reader.
Matt: Sure, that's a pretty old trope I think. It's been a critical commonplace for at least the last 60 years (though has come under theoretical fire in this time in various ways as a critical fiction), so I suspect it came from some place much earlier (and possibly even from a critic). My favorite version is Ralph Ellison's. He called the ideal American reader "the little man behind the stove at Chehaw Station." Thanks for the conversation, Matt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
