More For My Own Reference, Really, But Very Good Link

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I had wanted to go back to Rosemary Edghill's "Phatic Novel" essay for a long time, only I had forgotten the key word (shame on you, linguist girl!) until Athaira mentioned it in an unrelated comment, and it was almost comical the way I was going, "That's it! That's the word I am looking for!"

http://rosemaryedghill.livejournal.com/1487.html?thread=12751

I really cannot figure out whether the stuff I write is phatic or not. Probably phatic --- but I kind of want to throw a twist or two in there. Darned genes in common with Dostoyevsky and Sergei Eisenstein.

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yay me
I like having a phatic air, or something, or starting off that way, and then undermining it. Lure them into complacency and then traumatize them!!! BUWAHAHA!
We'll see if it works.