By Tom Dobson
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One about improving children’s creative writing, which my presentation clearly wasn’t concerned with – You: Wasn’t concerned with! Isn’t it important for people like yourself in education to try to improve children’s writing? I’m a line manager in my office and I have to read through job applications. Some of them, it’s as if they can’t write at all and yet you read their CVs and it says they’ve got A-Levels in this and that, degrees as well some of them, the lot! You should be trying to raise standards.
Superaddressee: Hence the impossibility of the Superaddressee. PhD Student: So you’ve done it again! Announcing your own impossibility! ) PhD Student: You became, for an instant, my Superaddressee. It was like a flickering of a dying light. You came and then you went. You: Did I? PhD Student: Think of the Superaddressee as an ephemeral Shape-shifter. As the author of a text, the speaker of an utterance, at times you will think that the Superaddressee stands in front of you; you’re beguiled into thinking that the person who is listening and responding does perfectly understand you after all.
I was talking about how strange life sometimes feels and how I lie awake at night thinking that it’s all a dream. Time marches onwards and we all grow up and grow older and what does it all mean? I see the earth spinning around the sun and all that space out there. So much space and space that just gets bigger. Inside my head it feels like one big vacuum, like everything is being sucked out. The nights are long when it’s like that. PhD Student: And what does your partner say when you’re like that?