ENG 378 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Free Indirect Speech, New York City English, Martin Amis
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Can"t see beyond himself: to whom is the note addressed? It is meant for you out there, the dear, the gentle. (prologue) 09/24 10/01 the reader is meant to think this book is written for them, and directed to find themselves in john self or any other characters. Self-aware, read as a moral book: english and american, director (commercials movies) Me, i was up in stratford all my commercials, featured a big bimb in cool pants and a bra. Perceived education : speaking as an englishman, one of the pluses of. New york is that is makes you feel surprisingly well-educated and upper- class. (24: like her fat pale lover, she never reads a book. (19, actively aggressive towards education. "reader," someone seemed to say. (182: extraordinarily coarse, uncouth. Poor social skills: creature of (very) low habits indulgences: alcohol, drugs, sex, junk food, smoking. Bad habits = burning through money feeling more high status by spending money: no payoff.
