Now that you written Middlesex, how do you feel about pronouns? I know they give me a headache, and I not dealing with your subject matter. Well, one of the reasons I wrote the book from the first person was so that I could avoid that awkwardness and just have an it would have been very difficult to write it from the third person. I somewhat oldfashioned in my use of pronouns like many women novelists I admire, I do usually stick with when I have a noun..Martin: Sometimes, I think about it. In the Ice and Fire books, there is a lot of analogy between what the knights do and what modern football players or boxers or people in other combatrelated sports do. A medieval knight trained every day.

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