you are right, of course. the problems this deals with are highly specific - definately not common to all. i mean, there is no denying, for instance, that they are painfully Western and shamefully middle class. and, in fact, they may even be so narrow and neurotic as to be limited just to me alone.
i do not want to appropriate experiences i have no understanding of. and by writing in generalisations, i probably run that risk. but i guess i intend my "we" to be an open one, to describe life as it might be lived, to be taken or left as the reader sees fit. my intention is not to be dictatorial but invitational; the effect, i guess, could easily be the opposite. and this, you see, is part of the reason why i have never seen myself as that good a writer.
p.s. i did post the entry i showed you as an edit to the ashbery poem. i made the corrections you suggested because, as usual, you were completely right.
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i do not want to appropriate experiences i have no understanding of. and by writing in generalisations, i probably run that risk. but i guess i intend my "we" to be an open one, to describe life as it might be lived, to be taken or left as the reader sees fit. my intention is not to be dictatorial but invitational; the effect, i guess, could easily be the opposite. and this, you see, is part of the reason why i have never seen myself as that good a writer.
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