What would it mean to write in the fourth person?

your future self

>>8795930
Future is the wrong term, its more like to write outside time itself.

>>8795938
your outside future self

It wouldn't mean anything because there are only three persons.

>>8795927
Observe:

___________________________________________________SUCC_________________________________________________

>>8795945
What are their names?

>>8795978
First, Second and Third

>>8795980
Those are some weird names. Their parents mustn't have liked them very much.

>>8795976
You took the words out of my fingers.

>>8795982
They didn't have any parents as they are abstract concepts.

>>8795976
impressive

>>8795927
i think it would be some meta shit
"the author states that the people in the story did this action"

>>8795987
Oh, orphans... how sad.. :(

>>8795938
Is a novel written as a stream of time the next step?

It means using special non-binary pronouns like zie and zir for your genderqueer character

Write a novel where events happen backwards but the character views them as if he was at the beginning of the events, so they have no idea what is happening.

>>8795976
Woah nelly

>>8795982
>mustn't
disgusting

>>8796045
>taking my bait
Revolting.

First and second person - participants of a story
Third person - observer of the story and its participants
By that logic fourth person - observer of the observer, I guess? So, like a narrative in which a narrator relies a story previously told to him by another character would be fourth person, no?

That exists, but it's not what you have on mind. Check out Cubeo language. They have a particle for to mark the protagonist and their actions.

>>8796096
I read about this in 'Pragmatics' by Levinson, if I remember correctly.

>>8796088
but how do we know the story is passed on?

>>8796088
Did Plato write Symposium in the forth person?

>>8796088
I think'd be more like a narrator narrating about another narrator as its happening, like describing the situation and relaying the story as the lesser narrator is telling it, thus the story being entirely in the form of dialogue, and any non dialogue is just the descriptions of the lesser narrator, his audience, whatever room he is in, etc

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>>8796096
>>8796104
Here, I found it.
Pic rel.

The book is called Pragmatics, it's by Stephen C. Levinson. The page is 88, if you are interested.

>>8795927
http://timecube.2enp.com/

Demetri Martin joke:
>Some authors write in first person and others write in third person. But I'm writing my book in fifth person, so every sentence starts out with: 'I heard from this guy who told somebody....'

>>8795978
Father, Son, Holy Spirit

>>8796120
>>8796105
>>8796088
There's a DFW story that does this in Oblivion.

>>8795976
wew lad

>>8795945
Four actually, if you counted God.

>>8796445
XD

>>8796445
whoa.....

>>8796445
God fucking kek'd

>>8796445

third person basically is god.

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>>8795927
Its like seeing in the fourth dimension, but i bet your IQ is to low for that.

>>8796518
No no, God isn't third person. God is three aspects in one person.

>>8796544
Came here to post this

>>8796544
which are which?

I
You
He/she/it
We
You(plural)
Them

>>8795927
Ghost writing a third person text.

>>8796630
This.

>>8796630
them is third person

Isn't We 4th person? Is /lit/ this retarded?

>>8797596
We is first person plural

>>8796560
this is this.

>>8796544
No, He'a three persons in one entity

>>8797687
fuck off
heretics these days

>>8795992
Concepts don't have emotions

>>8797721
Do their parents?

>>8797731
As stated already, Concepts do not have progenitors

If fourth person is just switching around in time, then isn't Infinite Jest fourth person?

>>8796544
>>8796445

Fucking tearing it up tonight m80.

But I believe there is a grammatical construct sometimes referred to as 4th person in Irish, Finnish, and some other languages, which is somewhat like an impersonal statement like "It is said." So you'd have to write a whole fucking book solely of impersonal statements, though perhaps such a gimmick might be interesting for a very short short story.

>>8795927
Fourth is usted

>>8795991
I could actually probably stomach that for a short story, if it isn't too overdone.

>>8795927
read the Voynich Manuscript and find out