Essay
The Power of ‘One’
Time to resurrect this meek and mighty pronoun?
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4 min readApr 5, 2023
I’m reading Elizabeth Bowen’s A Time in Rome and struck by how often she uses the pronoun one.
To talk of “entering” the past is nonsense, but one can be entered by it, to a degree…whatever went on, goes on, in one form…