"David, you said "using the fat white woman to personify her own failings as she saw them."
1. He could only guess at "her failings as she saw them." I agree with Gregory that the point of view is smugly condescending & all the more so because it's totally a shot in the dark from a whizzing train.
2. The phrase "personify her own failings as she saw them": what on earth does that mean, David? Can anyone personify their own failings as they see them? How is that done? Perhaps that is, after all, what John Lennon meant by posing for the camera sloshed with a kotex on his head. Or what Mark Chapman meant by shooting Lennon?
Terese"
--Terese,
I meant that Cornford was identifying herself with the woman in the fields. I'm sorry my meaning was not clear to you.
(Cornford was a woman, not a man, by the way.)
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