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"Reader" undergoes an unexpectedly personal experience when trying to understand an essay by Mary McCarthy. Instead of logically battling McCarthy’s claim that there’s such a thing as universal Truth, Reader finds herself _emotionally_ debating the idea. As a professional editor, Reader comes out of this experience with a realization about a key skill that all editors should possess.
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Constructed Reader, Real Emotion - A. P. Lamberti
Constructed Reader, Real Emotion
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Constructed Reader, Real Emotion
At first, the reader’s situation was typical. She was procrastinating, looking for a distraction from a pile of student papers. She was weighing her options—she’d just seen mention of Mary McCarthy's essay The Fact in Fiction,
in a collection ¹ of correspondence between McCarthy and Hannah Arendt. She was no less contented than usual, and there was no reason to expect that she would be more so. It was her usual situation, which meant Reader was her usual self when she looked up McCarthy’s essay, one of a trilogy published in The Partisan Review in the early 1960s, and began to read: a Gen Xer-turned-academic, a forty-something postmodernist.
But the essay was hard
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