Thursday, May 16, 2002

You know how you notice some small thing that you've never noticed before, and then you wonder how you could have missed it all that time? For me it just came while reading "A Heart-breaking Work of Staggering Genius." There was a part in the story where a long conversation is taking place. Dave Eggers doesn't bother with the "he said, she said" and instead simply states the dialogue. It always annoyed me when writers did that because it made it difficult to know who was saying what. Only just now did it occur to me that it was probably intentional. Weird. Minor. Of almost no insight. Obvious, almost. And yet I've gone 24 years without knowing that. Well, at this point, I guess that it was probably one of the few remaining things I didn't know. Figures it was so small, otherwise I would have learned it by now.