From My Perspective, the Reader Becomes Complicit
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From My Perspective, the Reader Becomes Complicit
In today's opinion column, I return to The Witness Seat because Ian Calder raises questions politics prefers to postpone. I contend that any fair reading must acknowledge what the ending might suggest about collective responsibility. When the narrator confronts the reader directly, the literary present makes refusal feel immediate.
Why does this argument matter now, and why must the column address timing as well as text? Ostensibly, the piece discusses fiction; in practice, it performs evaluative stance on civic memory. The prose demands that we notice modality: what may be true, what must be argued, what could still change.
At C1 level, literary register means controlling evaluative density while keeping the line of argument visible. The structure of The Witness Seat is subtly evasive, especially where Ian Calder presses evaluative language into opinion column rhythm rather than detached summary.
