appendix 34 on getting rid of your
slave
It occurs to me that a novelist
has the option to disenfranchise,
disempower or delete his slave
grammatically by taking away the
part of speech in which she acts
as a subject connected to a predicate.
So Marcel’s ultimate reference to
Albertine on the last page of the
novel is a sentence without a
main verb:
Profound Albertine, whom I
saw sleeping and who was
dead.
— Anne Carson
The Albertine Workout
