Цитаты из книги Or What You Will

Second person is a strange conceit, and we don’t intend to make you go there. Some people seem to find it erotic, as it is the mode used for a lot of written pornography. Is the feeling of passivity, or of being told what you do and feel, perhaps charged for them with some subtle erotic tension of helplessness, of being swept away by events, out of control? Interesting to consider. When there’s a whole form of discourse used pretty much only for porn and experimental edgy literature, you have to think about it, question why — except that in fact nobody does seem to be asking that question.

“I have been” is a very Celtic way to begin a self introduction. (I have been a Celt.) It’s as if the best way to present yourself is with an interlocking set of riddles, a negotiation of images and history and shared knowledge, creating a relationship between us where instead of information being imparted from me to you, you are instead asked to invoke your own wisdom and cunning and information stores to involve yourself in a guess. “I have been” in those long Celtic poems often gives way to “I am” more riddles, often boasting, phrased as sets of opposite qualities.