Chuk palnick is one of my old time favorite writers who dive deep into the writing process. Joan didion does this really well. She is so beautiful at kind of stating a case, but then ultimately she acknowledges that it's the reader who has to make the final judgment. You might ask them to make a certain verdict, but you cannot tell them to make that verdict. A yis is kind of a an elegant way of acquiescing to their, you know, acknowledging their independence.

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