Seeing

[Wilson Gray]

I agree with you, Rick. He made a mistake and his editor failed to catch it.

-Wilson

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Rick Barr <rickbarremail at gmail.com> wrote:
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> In Andrew Porter's short story "Azul" (first published in *One Story* in
> 2006, later collected in the book *The Theory of Light and Matter*), the
> narrator says this in the first paragraph: "Azul has been seeing this boy
> Ramon for the past three months." At the end of the paragraph, the narrator
> says that Azul "and Ramon have been seeing each other romantically for
> almost a month."
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> I thought the first "see," in context, made it clear that Azul and Ramon
> were having a romantic relationship. But then we are told that, after two
> months of non-romantic "seeing," a romantic "seeing" began.
>
> Does that sound odd to anyone else? Or am I alone in jumping to the
> conclusion that the first "seeing" (because it said "seeing *each other*")
> implied a romantic relationship?
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> -- Rick
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-Wilson
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