The Biographical Reader

He was what she called a biographical type of reader. He searched for her in her writings, and he searched for himself. Every “he” seemed to him like it was about himself and every “she” was about her. He didn’t know that she, anticipating this kind of reader, regularly switched genders in her writings. So when he was reading about “him” thinking it was about himself it was more likely to be about her, and when he was reading about her thinking it was about herself it was more possible that he was reading about himself. In keeping with that, we would be better off reading this particular piece to be about her misreading herself into his words, thinking he was writing about her when he was writing about himself or some other him, and thinking he was writing about himself when he could be writing about her or some other “she.”

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