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14. "RE: The hard part"
In response to message #9
 
   >Second person - you did this, you did that, you experienced the other.
> The only things I've ever seen written primarily in the second person
>are particularly awful Internet porn stories and Charles Stross's
>Halting State, which is like Internet porn without the porn. :)

Ted Chiang's novella Story of Your Life has significant parts in second person, and unusually works. But that is part of the central conceit of the story :-)

S.


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   RE: The hard part The Traitor Jul-14-13 1
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   RE: The hard part Mercutio Jul-14-13 3
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   RE: The hard part BeardedFerret Jul-14-13 6
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