I think I've always been drawn to the second person. When I was growing up and playing with my friends, the usual way we interacted with imaginary worlds was as characters: a bench was 'your' boat, leaves on a lawn were the fins of sharks out to get 'you.'

Discontent and Its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London (ed. Penguin UK, 2014) - ISBN: 9780241966808