I think you're probably right re: Jess Mabe's intentions with the story. (She also wrote "The Other Man", right? Which also seemed to me to have very specific goals as to what the reader might feel while/after reading it.)
As to compartmentalizing, I'm not sure it's the best approach to life, but to reading and playing in fictional universes? I definitely think it has its merits. ;)
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Date: 2009-12-22 11:37 am (UTC)As to compartmentalizing, I'm not sure it's the best approach to life, but to reading and playing in fictional universes? I definitely think it has its merits. ;)