Lugones believes that in order to world-travel, one needs to give up the arrogant construction of concepts from one's own perspective.
It appears that someone who has developed an enjoyment in the activities of deliberating and reflecting, and whose self-esteem is based on that enjoyment, will be more likely to take up the point of view of the judicious spectator and to perform the subtle corrections in response that may be necessary to loosen oneself from one's own perspective and specific passions.
Figuring out what one's own story is, from one's own perspective, is both challenging and fascinating.
Bertrand Russell, a man otherwise known for brilliant but stuffy mathematical and philosophical work, authored "The ABC of Relativity," in which dinner plates changed shape, from circular to oval, according to one's perspective, and flies landing on stagnant pools served as models for stars bending space-time.
Sometimes one takes "the position of an onlooker or observer, looking at the situation from an external vantage point and seeing oneself 'from the outside'"; or one can remember the same scene from one's own (past) perspective, with roughly the field of view available in the original situation, without 'seeing oneself' (Nigro and Neisser 1983, pp.467 8).
But Mr. McEwan does a fluent job of showing how they result from a combination of chance, misunderstanding and malign will, while deftly cutting from one character's perspective to another's to create a complex narrative that is choral in resonance and effect.
The Raven Boys has a brilliant plot and I love Stiefvater's writing style and how easily she slips from one character's perspective to another.
From one informant's perspective, the CCAAC was able to influence government's use of language in reference to ECEC (i.e. 'daycare as support for welfare recipients' changed to 'childcare for young children').
Seeing tennis as something balletic shifts one's perspective, from the competitor's to the artist's, or the gentleman's, or the Christian's.
It's a very tightly-written book that, while set mainly in a prison and told only from one character's perspective, never feels claustrophobic.
Birbiglia is repeatedly intrigued by the structure of jokes – how a joke can only ever be told from one person's perspective.
