Will This Woman Notice Her Homeless Family?
- Thread starter Lawrence
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One of my favorite writers, with the coolest-ever name: GM Ford, pointed it out long ago, by including homeless and unreformed alcoholics as characters in many of his books. They sometimes earn a few bucks by doing surveillance jobs for the protagonist, because they are as close to invisible as people can be.
What's interesting is how the abstract [homeless, unemployed, addict] concepts take on a completely different coloration when it becomes personal, or when you get to know the people behind the labels. It's easy to dismiss an abstract, but a real person: not so much. Good stuff.
What's interesting is how the abstract [homeless, unemployed, addict] concepts take on a completely different coloration when it becomes personal, or when you get to know the people behind the labels. It's easy to dismiss an abstract, but a real person: not so much. Good stuff.