Black Muddy River

[Dstone5553]

i read this and thought to myself (in the following order)

1. who the fuck refers to himself in the third person

I read this and thought to myself (in the following order):

1. Not everyone can get away with referring to themselves in the third person.

2. Dr. Barry, however, is one of those who can.

3. Dstone553 is one of those who cannot.

Just speaking the truth (I speak along with my typing for those of you who may not have known that).

[Dr. Barry]

Understanding "Point of View" in literature for Dummies

The above link does a pretty good job of refreshing the memory for people like me that do not consider themselves up on their grammar rules....

The reason that I wrote my post in that perspective was because the passage of 30 years casted the realization that while always the same core "Barry" , It does feel like I was a very different person at 16. The description of "Third Person" below states that it is used to take the perspective of an outsider looking in at the action.

"Third-person point of view is that of an outsider looking at the action. The writer may choose third-person omniscient, in which the thoughts of every character are open to the reader, or third-person limited, in which the reader enters only one character's mind, either throughout the entire work or in a specific section. Third-person limited differs from first-person because the author's voice, not the character's voice, is what you hear in the descriptive passages.

In Virginia Woolf's wonderful novel Mrs. Dalloway, you're in one character's mind at a time. You know the title character's thoughts about Peter, the great love of her youth, for example, and then a few pages later, you hear Peter's thoughts about Mrs. Dalloway. Fascinating! When you're reading a third-person selection, either limited or omniscient, you're watching the story unfold as an outsider. Remember that most writers choose this point of view.[i]"

Without really "knowing it" I was using the third person perspective to reflect my feeling that I was looking in on the action even though it was me, albeit a much younger me that I was writing about.

I apologize in advance and in retrospect for any and all abuses of the English language that I have and will continue to commit.

Never is it my intention to raise a stink eye when I post here.

Dr. B