Well, in an inn, to be precise. Or not even an inn. A room in a pub.
And this is why I've just never been much of a fan of Margaret Atwood. Don't say, "to be precise", followed by an immediate revision that calls that precision into question. Semantics, I know.
I'd consider it part of characterising the narrator. The false starts, the confident statement retracted. It's quite effective in painting the narrator as a certain type of story teller.
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And this is why I've just never been much of a fan of Margaret Atwood. Don't say, "to be precise", followed by an immediate revision that calls that precision into question. Semantics, I know.
I'd consider it part of characterising the narrator. The false starts, the confident statement retracted. It's quite effective in painting the narrator as a certain type of story teller.
I get it, I just don't like it because she does it SO often that I don't find it effective so much as annoying.