Sublime

Who is speaking, what is being said, and what is the relation between the two?

The personal had become political, and the headlines metaphoric.

Modern memoir posits that the shaped presentation of one’s own life is of value to the disinterested reader only if it dramatizes and reflects sufficiently on the experience of “becoming”: undertakes to trace the internal movement away from the murk of being told who you are by the accident of circumstance toward the clarity that identifies accurat

In each case the writer was possessed of an insight that organized the writing, and in each case a persona had been created to serve the insight.

The unsurrogated narrator has the monumental task of transforming low-level self-interest into the kind of detached empathy required of a piece of writing that is to be of value to the disinterested reader.