Michael J Flaherty wrote:
Mr. Stone,
I don't know what happened at Pearl Park. You do. If you really wanted
to
provide an account of it, then I'd expect as much from you in a first
person
account.
Dan McGuire
Ericsson
replied
I think Mr. Stone is on pretty solid ground in his use of the third person
in a political report, especially one that characterizes the actions of a
another political person or competing theory. He is in good company in
doing so; a few that come to mind are: Aristotle, more than one Caesar,
Dante, Machiavelli, Benveniste, Barthes... The list is long and the
technique is very effective when used judiciously, as I would say Mr.
Stone has done here.
To this I can only say "AMEN" and let's not forget our more recent example
of Presidential candidate Bob Dole who raised third person references to
one's self to a fine art.
Steven M Nelson
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