On page 471, Ward talks about public and private, describing Burden’s cover up story for getting shot. He said the event was either private or public, I assume depending on the part of the story that is told. The domestic dispute is private with the hunting accident is public. Ward said that the after effect of “Shoot” was to reveal the instability of the legal definitions or limits of those categories. Is he referring to how well the story holds up in public? What is he saying to say about this public and private relationship?
On pg 465 of the reader, Ward talks about how in relation to “Shoot,” ‘everyone’ (us) is the collective that forms around the violent event. He goes form saying the Burden is just one of ‘us’ > ‘we’ > ‘everyone’ > ‘I’. What is his meaning? Is he saying that he can relate to Burden’s art performance by just watching it? Is this the relationship Burden talks about when he said that “all the audience cannot help but place themselves into my shoes?”
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