While Bird

'While Bird' is an anagram of 'Whil Bride' - the internet pseudonym of William McBride.| A While Bird is winged, and seemingly weightless, but, instead of soaring to limitless heights, it will dance and flit about just at the level of the treetops, looking down, checking back, bearing a quiet, melancholy patience. | This is my favourite website, and it changes according to my tastes.| These days you are likely to find here: Proust quotes, AU and US politicking notes, Burt Bacharach Feel Goods and the odd piece of patented Proesy. Other interests include: the ways in which theinternetchangeslives, quotes about hard work, and, of course, Sex and the Dead. Get in touch: will.bride[at]gmail.com
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“ Near the end of the book, Davis says she began by trying to write it in the third person. ‘Then a day came when I had used she for I so long that even the third person was too close to me and I needed another person, even farther away than the third person.’ By the time she puts it into the first person, the story has become so weathered by its evolution in the third that it chafes oddly with what is traditionally a fresh, sensitive and vulnerable pronoun. The effect is remarkable. ”

From The Rear-View Mirror, Michael Hofmann’s review of Lydia Davis’s The End of the Story, in the London Review of Books.