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Unread 10-18-2010, 06:12 AM
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John, your example demonstrates how intractable a problem this is. If I remember rightly, there's only one first-person pronoun in your "Little Prince" and it's "our," so it's not as if there's a clear, individual first-person narrator. Poetry is fiction, but we're moving people to feel real feelings, and the brain just doesn't make the separation well.
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